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31Mary Dendy Hospital — Coordinates: 53°17′38″N 2°17′10″W / 53.294°N 2.286°W / 53.294; 2.286 The Mary Dendy Hospital was a hospital for the …
32fool — fool1 /foohl/, n. 1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense. 2. a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of royal or noble rank for amusement: the court fool. 3. a person who has been tricked or deceived into… …
33idiocy — n. 1. Condition of an idiot, imbecility, native irrationality, congenital imbecility. 2. Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, feebleness of intellect, want of understanding …
34insanity — The term is a social and legal term rather than a medical one, and indicates a condition which renders the affected person unfit to enjoy liberty of action because of the unreliability of his behavior with concomitant danger to himself and others …
35insanity — The term is a social and legal term rather than a medical one, and indicates a condition which renders the affected person unfit to enjoy liberty of action because of the unreliability of his behavior with concomitant danger to himself and others …
36Carrie Buck — (1906–1983) was a plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927) and was ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being feeble minded as part of the state of Virginia s eugenics program while …
37insanity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of mental soundness Nouns 1. insanity, lunacy, derangement, craziness, feeblemindedness; abnormal behavior, pathology; affective disorder; nervous breakdown; antisocial, compulsive, cyclothymic,… …
38lunacy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. insanity, madness, dementia, mania; see insanity 1 . See Synonym Study at insanity . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. craziness, insanity, psychosis, madness, dementia, folly, foolishness, idiocy, *wackiness, *nuttiness,… …
39Absence or want of Intellect — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Absence or want of Intellect >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 absence of intellect absence of intellect want of intellect &c. 450 Sgm: N 1 imbecility imbecility &c. 499 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 1 ???>: brutality brute force …
40Absurdity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Absurdity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 absurdity absurdity absurdness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility imbecility &c. 499 Sgm: N 1 alogy| alogy| nonsense Sgm: N 1 paradox paradox …
