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non ˈcompos
Short for non compos mentis.
1628Coke On Litt. 247 So it is of a Non compos, and so it is of him qui gaudet lucidis interuallis. 1711Vind. Sacheverell 41 Any Jury..will bring him in Non Compos. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 176 The Templar affirmed, that the poor fellow was ‘non compos’; and exhorted the justice to discharge him as a lunatic. 1814Chalmers Sp. in Life (1849) I. 503 They.., like a non⁓compos, have resigned the management of their affairs into other hands. 1817T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. 89 Your learned mythologist appears to be non compos. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. ii. (Rtldg.) 45 If they were not the most stupid or the most selfish of human beings, they would become non-compotes at once. |