IMBECILE
\ɪmbˈɛsa͡ɪl], \ɪmbˈɛsaɪl], \ɪ_m_b_ˈɛ_s_aɪ_l]\
Definitions of IMBECILE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind.
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To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
By Oddity Software
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One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind.
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To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Mentally deficient. 2. One who is congenitally weak-minded, yet not wholly incapable of education; a mental defective not advancing beyond the Binet age of 7 years; see idiot and moron.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Without strength either of body or of mind: feeble.
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One destitute of strength, either of mind or body.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Of feeble mind; having only rudimentary intelligence remaining; nearly idiotic; as a n., a person so affected (usually congenitally or as a result of age or cerebral or other disease). [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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