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‖ non compos mentis|nɒn ˈkɒmpɒs ˈmɛntɪs|
[L. = ‘not master of one's mind’.]
Not compos mentis; not in one's right mind. Also as n.
1607Cowell Interpr., Non compos mentis is of foure sortes. 1628Coke On Litt. 246 b, Here Littl. explaneth a man of no sound memory to be Non compos mentis. 1692Jacobite Conventicle Postscr., These men are sure Non compos mentis, And Bedlam must be sure Enlarg'd. 1695Congreve Love for L. iv. xii, His son is non compos mentis, and thereby incapable of making any conveyance in law. 1732Fielding Miser iv. ix, Heyday! sure you are non compos mentis! 1765Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 294 A lunatic, or non compos mentis, is one who hath had under⁓standing, but by disease [etc.] hath lost the use of his reason. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 129 Never was scribe yet so non compos mentis, And ranking of Bathos more sterling apprentice. 1864Nichols Forty Years Amer. Life II. 123 A crazy man, or one decided to be non compos mentis, might be challenged and his vote denied. |