What is insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy called?
dementia — Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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