non compos

"This does not look like want of sensibility, or mens non compos," I said to the mother.

She went on to describe her timid methods; she said she feared he was non compos, for he made no progress.

I should laugh to see every lineament "going ahead," and art "non compos."

The Templar affirmed, that the poor fellow was non compos; and exhorted the justice to discharge him as a lunatic.

The case is the same, betwixt a king non compos mentis, and one who is nondum compos mentis; a distracted or an infant-king.