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▪ I. ament1|əˈmɛnt|
[ad. L. ament-um.]
†1. ‘A thong, or string.’ Cockeram 1623. Obs.
2. Bot. = amentum.
1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. 9 The scales in the ament in the Salix rosea, grow into leaves. 1874Coues Birds of N.-W. 208 A Thistle-bird swinging under the globular ament of a button-wood.
▪ II. ament2|ˈeɪmɛnt, əˈmɛnt|
[ad. L. āment-, āmens: see amenty.]
A person congenitally deficient in mind or intellect; a born idiot or imbecile.
1894in Gould Dict. Med. 1912Ch. Q. Rev. LXXIII. 326 We will classify them all (idiots, imbeciles, or feeble-minded) under the name ‘Ament’, meaning people without mind in contrast to the class of Dement, which we will assume to mean all those who have been sane, but have lost their mind. 1935W. de la Mare Early One Morning 552 Aments..begin to talk late, have certain special defects, are sluggish of thought. 1952A. F. & R. F. Tredgold Mental Deficiency (ed. 8) iv. 61 Aments vary very greatly in the degree of their defect. |