单词 | dementalized |
释义 | dementalizedadj. Deprived of the capacity for thought; brutalized or dehumanized; having lost mental capacity or a mental quality. ΚΠ 1857 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. Sept. 93/2 Soon the mobs of the city or the rude soldiery took the power into their own hands; and liberty and civilization and national existence expired, stabbed by the brute hand of the dementalized human animal. 1899 J. Macpherson Mental Affections iii. xviii. 346 Food is taken with avidity. This is partly due to..the dehumanised and dementalised condition of the patient. 1950 Mind 59 406 Can an adequate de-mentalized psychology ever be achieved? 1988 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 1. 78 In this disembodied and ‘dementalized’, if not ‘disensouled’, form tanū is a pure structure or a ‘shadow’ of a person (comparable to the Cheshire cat's smile left behind in the sky on the disappearance of the cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). 2000 Philos. Rev. 109 301 Heidegger..tries to show that it presupposes a ‘transcendence’ of the actual that is a kind of de-mentalized version of intentionality and, as such, a defining character of human existence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1857 |
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