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Definition of Idiots
1. idiot [n] - See also: idiot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiots
Literary usage of Idiots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"Suggestions for removal of quiet epileptics and younger idiots from asylums at
... Urgent necessity of making some special provision for idiots; ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(1) idiots.—An idiot, or natural fool, is one that hath had no understanding from
his nativity; and therefore is by law presumed never likely to attain any. ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1851)
"By inspecting, personally, as many idiots as possible, in order to ascertain
their condition ... In other towns, idiots, who to all appearance had no more ..."
4. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, Thomas Emerson Headlam (1846)
"With respect to idiots and lunatics, it is to be observed that suits on their
behalf are usually instituted by the committees of and' ..."
5. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind by James Cowles Prichard (1835)
"Of the Form of the Head in idiots. idiots have faults in the conformation of the
head much more frequently than insane persons; there are comparatively few ..."
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