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Definition of Deaf-mute

1. Noun. A deaf person who is unable to speak.

2. Adjective. Lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak.

Definition of Deaf-mute

1. Adjective. Unable to hear or speak ¹

2. Noun. A person who is unable to hear or speak. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Deaf-mute

1. An individual with deafmutism. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaf-mute

deae ex machinis deaerate deaerated deaerates deaerating deaeration deaerations deaerator deaerators deaf

deaf(p) deaf-aid deaf-and-dumb deaf-and-dumb person deaf-blindness deaf-mute (current term) deaf-muteness deaf-mutes deaf-mutism deaf and dumb

deaf as a doorpost deaf as a post deaf person deaf to(p) deafblind deafblindness deafen deafened deafening deafening silence

Literary usage of Deaf-mute

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We find foor Instances of the marriage of a congenital deaf mute with an acquired deaf mute, from three of which 7 children resulted, one of whom was deaf ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"In 1854 Dr. Peet, the Principal of the New York Institution, said that, of all the families of which he had records, " about one in twenty have deaf-mute ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"ANATOMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BRAIN AND SEVERAL SENSE-ORGANS OF THE BLIND deaf-mute, LAURA DEWEY BRIDGMAN. HENRY H. DONALDSON, PH. D. II. ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1867)
"SIGNS IN DEAF MUTE EDUCATION. The Education of Deaf Mutts; ... By SAMUEL PORTER, National Deaf Mute College, Washington, DC New York: B. Westermann & Co. ..."

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