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Definition of Idiocies
1. idiocy [n] - See also: idiocy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiocies
Literary usage of Idiocies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"M. The idiocies and Imbecilities (Dependent upon Faulty Development of the Brain)
... The idiocies and imbecilities are nearly always organic diseases, ..."
2. A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1917)
"PATHOLOGIC idiocies Idiots with gross pathologic changes, such as hemiplegia and
diplegia, occur with considerable frequency. There is always present a ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"Now in a general way it may be said that the simple idiocies without epilepsy
... The idiocies that are associated with tits and palsies are most often 'iue ..."
4. Something on Ruskinism: With a "vestibule" in Rhyme by Architect (1851)
"Apropos to those same idiocies, he, no doubt, takes the Exhibition scheme and
the Crystal Palace to be foremost among them, inasmuch as they declare ..."
5. The Buried Ideal by Charles Lawson (1914)
"On the contrary, I can find it, despite its steady stupidities and occasional
idiocies, generally salutary. For generally it speaks no theoretic Tightness, ..."
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