amentia
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The former are labouring under dementia, not amentia.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack
Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.
From Rural Problems of Today by Groves, Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford)
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
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)
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 )