Mental

  • 11Mental — Mental, a word referring to aspects of, or things related to, the mind; or in anatomy, the skull, e.g. the mental foramen, can also mean: a slang, pejorative term used to describe people who act like lunatics, which is itself an outdated term for …

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  • 12mental — The use of mental in expressions such as mental hospital and mental patient, recorded from the end of the 19c, has been replaced in modern use by psychiatric …

    Modern English usage

  • 13mental — ► ADJECTIVE 1) of, done by, or occurring in the mind. 2) relating to disorders or illnesses of the mind. 3) informal mad. DERIVATIVES mentally adverb. USAGE The use of mental in sense 2 (e.g. as in mental hospital …

    English terms dictionary

  • 14Mental — Men tal, a. [L. mentum the chin.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 15mental — (adj.) early 15c., pertaining to the mind, from M.Fr. mental, from L.L. mentalis of the mind, from L. mens (gen. mentis) mind, from PIE root *men to think (Cf. Skt. matih thought, mind, Goth. gamunds, O.E. gemynd memory, remembrance; …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 16mental — 1. perteneciente, relativo o característico de la mente o psique. 2. que existe en la mente; realizado o ejecutado por la mente. 3. perteneciente, relativo o caracterizado por un trastorno mental. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias …

    Diccionario médico

  • 17mental — [adj1] concerning the mind brainy*, cerebral, clairvoyant, deep, heavy, ideological, imaginative, immaterial, inner, intellective, intellectual, mysterious, phrenic, psychic, psychical, psychological, rational, reasoning, spiritual, subconscious …

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  • 18mental — Adj. (Mittelstufe) geh.: auf den Geist bezogen, geistig Beispiele: Er war auf diese Situation mental nicht vorbereitet. Mentale Übungen stärken das Selbstvertrauen …

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  • 19Mental — Men tal, n. (Zo[ o]l.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 20Mentāl... — Mentāl... (v. lat.), 1) (von Mentum, das Kinn), auf das Kinn sich beziehend, Arterien, Venen, Nerven etc.; 2) (von Mens, Verstand, Seele), auf das Innere, auf die Gedanken sich beziehend. Daher Mentalreservation (Reservatio mentalis), bei einem… …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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