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Definition of Demented
1. Adjective. Affected with madness or insanity. "A man who had gone mad"
Similar to: Insane
Derivative terms: Craze, Craziness, Dementedness, Madness, Sick
Definition of Demented
1. a. Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
Definition of Demented
1. Adjective. Insane or mentally ill. ¹
2. Adjective. Suffering from dementia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demented
1. dement [v] - See also: dement
Medical Definition of Demented
1. Suffering from dementia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demented
Literary usage of Demented
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"Tent Life for the demented and Uncleanly.—Twenty patients were selected of whom
60 per cent, were bed-ridden and most of them stupid and demented with no ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"Tent Life for the demented and Uncleanly.—Twenty patients were selected of whom
60 per cent, were bed-ridden and most of them stupid and demented with no ..."
3. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"In accordance with the dominance of individual symptoms, paresis may be divided
into four distinct classes, as follows: the demented, the depressive, ..."
4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"... which I saw ' last night, he says " What do the papers mean by saying '"that
Charles is demented, and further, that he has '" turned roman-catholic ? ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If, however, he has sinned and thus demented, it is clear that, to demerit, the
liberty of indifference is not requisite, and what is said of demerit must ..."
6. Handbook of the Roman Law by Ferdinand Mackeldey, Moses Aaron Dropsie (1883)
"The curator named has not only to care for the management of the estate, but also
for the restoration of the demented's health.4 If the demented have lucid ..."
7. Criminology by Maurice Parmelee (1918)
"CHAPTER XII PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMINALS The borderline between amentia and normal
mentality — The borderline between amentia and dementia and insanity- demented ..."
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