amentia
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In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital or comes on very early in life.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
In conclusion, he condemned them all for madmen, fools, idiots, asses, O stulti, quaenam haec est amentia?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.
From Rural Problems of Today by Groves, Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford)
Nympholeptos et lymphaticos et hydrophobos vocant quos aqu� necaverunt aut amentia vel formidine exercuerunt.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)