Definition of Dements

1. dement [v] - See also: dement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dements

dementednesses
dementi
dementia
dementia-nuchal dystonia
dementia paralytica
dementia paranoides
dementia praecox
dementia pugilistica
demential
dementialike
dementias
dementing
dementis
dementor
dementors
dements (current term)
demephitize
demephitized
demephitizes
demephitizing
demerara
demerara rum
demerara sugar
demeraran
demeraras
demerge
demerged
demerger
demergered
demergering

Literary usage of Dements

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

1. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"The Value of the Testimony of dements.—Very old men do not make such good witnesses ... One circumstance with regard to the evidence of dements is worthy of ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"... unnecessary diatribe against Mr. Henry Smith, contained in Chapter V. Whatever be the merits or dements of the " clamp and cautery" treatment of piles, ..."

3. Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Mathematical Science: Comprising by Charles Davies, William Guy Peck (1865)
"... will serve to determine these dements of the curve in certain сам* : I ... dements ..."

4. History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio by W. W. Munsell & Co, Alfred Emory Lee (1892)
"The dements of zoology, botany and physics were introduced, and in the grammar grades one hour per week was devoted to oral instruction in ..."

5. Alienists and Neurologists of America: Proceedings of Sixth Annual Meeting by Chicago Medical Society (1917)
"Every hospital has an enormous number of dements who sit about the ward idle, at times noisy and destructive, and always untidy and slovenly. ..."

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