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mattoid, a. and n.|ˈmætɔɪd| [ad. It. mattoide, f. matto insane: see -oid.] See quot. 1891.
1891tr. Lombroso's Man of Genius iii. 209 This variety forms the link between madmen of genius, the sane, and the insane properly so called. These are what I call semi-insane persons or mattoids. Ibid. iii. 223 Mattoid theologians..have unfortunately been taken so seriously as to be burned alive. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 196 The so-called borderland cases between sanity and insanity—for example eccentrics, cranks, mattoids. |