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a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 662 A childish and idiotelike pole.

1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts B b My Stockings Ideot-like, red, greene, and yealow.

1752 G. A. Stevens Distress upon Distress ii. 87 He cries to change, and sighs for other Toys, Ideot-like dotes, or Savage-like destroys.

1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 288 They, ideot-like, stand staring and sucking their fingers.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 35 Muttering and mumbling, idiotlike it seem'd.

1892 A. Bierce Tales of Soldiers & Civilians 189 Its horrible head..was directed straight toward him, the definition of the wide, brutal jaw and the idiot-like forehead serving to show the direction of its malevolent gaze.

1897 O. Wilde Let. 28 May in De Profundis (2005) 137 Sometimes he would grin idiot-like to himself and make faces.

1960 A. E. Nourse Star Surgeon ix. 108 A fading away of intelligent responses, leaving thousands of creatures walking blank-faced and idiot-like about the streets and countryside.

1991 N. M. Lippit & K. I. Selden tr. K. Taeko Japanese Women Writers 120 A child who can automatically do what she is told—an idiot-like child—even her face must look like an idiot's.

1993 Sat. Evening Post (Nexis) 1 July Naomi managed a weak smile, an idiot-like grin the kids had never seen before.