non compos
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When you watch it, you can see quite clearly, with the benefit of hindsight, that he is non compos mentis.
From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2010
In London, a coroner found that the late Sidney Corrall, acquisitive but non compos mentis, had swallowed and kept all to himself 201 pennies, florins, shillings, halfpennies, sixpences, half crowns, and threepenny bits.
From Time Magazine Archive
If anyone proposes another match race between these two super horses,” wrote a reporter after the race, “henceforth, he will be tried in the morning for treason, mutiny, mopery and non compos mentis.'''’
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
You will not say, after this, that I am non compos, and unable to make a will.
From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony
The case is the same, betwixt a king non compos mentis, and one who is nondum compos mentis; a distracted or an infant-king.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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