intellectual+faculties
101Kyoiku chokugo — The Imperial Rescript on Education, promulgated in October 1890. Authored chiefly by Inoue, Kowashi it followed the new Meiji Constitution of 1889 and became in effect a sacred scripture to be installed with the picture of the emperor and… …
102senile dementia — n a mental disorder of old age esp. of the degenerative type associated with Alzheimer s disease called also senile psychosis * * * loss of the intellectual faculties often associated with behavioural deterioration, beginning for the first time… …
103aphrenia — n. failure of development of the intellectual faculties. See mental retardation …
104Prichard, James Cowles — (1786–1848) Best known for his concept moral insanity, Prichard was born at Ross in Herefordshire, England, into a cultivated Quaker family but was raised in Bristol. He earned his M.D. from Edinburgh in 1808, and shortly thereafter began… …
105Unitary Psychosis — (from 1822) (See also Psychosis: Emergence.) At the biological level, the concept probably originates with Parisian physician Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle (1799–1858) in his work on what was recognized much later as cerebral syphilis (it… …
106brains — n. pl. Understanding, sense, mind, reason, intellect, capacity, intellectual faculties …
107wit — n. 1. Intellect, understanding, mind, sense, reason, genius, mental power, intellectual faculties, thinking principle, mother wit. 2. Quick perception (as of partial resemblance in things mostly unlike), keen discernment, acumen, penetration,… …
108amentia — n. failure of development of the intellectual faculties. See: mental retardation …
109understanding — un•der•stand•ing [[t]ˌʌn dərˈstæn dɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) the mental process of a person who understands; comprehension; personal interpretation 2) intellectual faculties; intelligence 3) knowledge of or familiarity with a particular thing 4) a state of… …
110understand — [c]/ʌndəˈstænd / (say unduh stand) verb (understood, understanding) –verb (t) 1. to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend. 2. to be thoroughly familiar with; apprehend clearly the character or nature of. 3. to comprehend by… …
