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Definition of Echolalic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Echolalic
Literary usage of Echolalic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1919)
"In suppressing interpretation she suppresses echolalic tendencies, and the mind
will act in the direction of its own memories. Now with Mrs. Piper the names ..."
2. Birmingham Medical Review (1905)
"... and from the second month the child babbles away to itself quite incomprehensible
babble for a long time, and often is to a certain degree echolalic, ..."
3. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1910)
"... where the mental side of the phenomena may occur tho the physical cannot occur
except as echolalic or automatic results of the mental and executed by ..."
4. Insanity and its treatment: Lectures on the Treatment, Medical and Legal, of by George Fielding Blandford, Allan McLane Hamilton (1886)
"When he does talk it is in a garrulous manner, and like the echolalic idiot he
repeats the last phrase he may have heard, or one word over and over. ..."
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