| 单词 | mental defective |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmental defective d. Designating a person suffering from an illness or impairment of the mind. Esp. in mental case, mental defective.A use now increasingly avoided. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > affected with deleerit1786 psychopathic1888 mental1899 wackadoo1958 wackadoodle1993 1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 747 (title) Mental defectives and social welfare. 1904 Lancet 17 Sept. 838/1 The Home Secretary..has at last been impressed with the total inadequacy of the provision made for..mental incapables. 1908 Lancet 12 Sept. 813/2 Dr. W. C. S. Clapham..had many suspected mental cases sent to his out-patient department. 1913 E. Meynell Life F. Thompson 279 Many a time I've asked him to have his bit of lunch with me and the other ‘mental’—O yes, she's a mental case, as I may have told you. 1922 Edinb. Rev. July 34 The Eugenics Education Society..actively supported the Act for the compulsory segregation of mental defectives. 1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 182 The highly bred dogs are mostly physical and mental defectives. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 808/1 He distrusted psychiatrists, fearing that his physical condition would be forgotten and that he would be labelled a ‘mental case’. 1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Dec. 18/2 I had always thought of him as less a mental defective than an amiable simpleton whose huge hands just need keeping an eye on. < as lemmas |
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