Definition of Demential

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Demential

demency
dement
dementate
dementation
demented
dementedly
dementedness
dementednesses
dementi
dementia
dementia-nuchal dystonia
dementia paralytica
dementia paranoides
dementia praecox
dementia pugilistica
demential (current term)
dementialike
dementias
dementing
dementis
dementor
dementors
dements
demephitize
demephitized
demephitizes
demephitizing
demerara
demerara rum
demerara sugar

Literary usage of Demential

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

1. The Intelligence of the Feeble-minded by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon (1916)
"It is true that we say that the errors of general paralytics indicate a demential level. But is this true? The errors of general paralytics seem rather in ..."

2. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1912)
"... that the demential processes were instituted by the imprisonment and that their development could be checked by the interruption of the imprisonment at ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"... of four years' standing, the disease being in the demential stage. Following a period of excitement the patient passed into one of depression, ..."

4. The Development of Intelligence in Children: (the Binet-Simon Scale) by Alfred Binet (1916)
"Conditions which simulate idiocy are stupor and different demential states. It is incontestable that Esquirol, by the insistence with which he developed ..."

5. The Feebly Inhibited: Nomadism, Or the Wandering Impulse, with Special by Charles Benedict Davenport (1915)
"That there is a difference in the nature of the hereditary factors in emotional and demential psychoses is indicated by many additional facts. ..."

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