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单词 insanity of mind
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insanity of mind
1. The condition of being insane; unsoundness of mind as a consequence of brain-disease; madness, lunacy. Originally, called insanity of mind.‘A condition of the mind in which a false action of conception or judgment, a defective power of the will, or an uncontrollable violence of the emotions and instincts, have separately or conjointly been produced by disease’ (Dr. J. C. Bucknill, Crim. Lunacy (1854) 28).
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1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes ii. f. 36v Madfolkes and Lunaticke persons, during the time of their furor or insanitie of minde, cannot make a testament.
a1677 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (R.) There is a partial insanity of mind and a total insanity. This partial insanity seems not to excuse them in the committing of any offence for its matter capital.
1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 343 Did they attempt to produce any evidence of his insanity?
1782 T. Arnold (title) Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity.
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xii. 265 The murder of an officer may be..coloured over with [the plea]..of temporary insanity.
1859 Engineer VII. 282/2 Two cases of suicide..In each case the coroner's jury brought in a verdict of temporary insanity.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Aug. 4/1 The definition of insanity..as an inability to reason upon the evidence of the senses.
1897 Dict. National Biogr. LII. 320/2 D. Skae's..definition of insanity as ‘a disease of the brain affecting the mind’ is not disputable.
in extended use.1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 523 The frenzy of the brain may be redress'd By med'cine well applied, but without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure.
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