单词 | to be in one's right mind |
释义 | > as lemmasto be in one's right mind (also senses, wits, etc.) a. Of the mind or mental faculties: normal, natural, sound; such that one can think and act competently. Chiefly in to be in one's right mind (also senses, wits, etc.) (frequently in negative contexts).Recorded earliest (in Old English) in compounds of the uninflected adjective stem. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > [adjective] > of the mind rightOE wholeOE good1404 sound1531 static1652 spacked1673 unobscured1748 valid1854 OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 21 Oct. 237 Þa sona swa heo ineode, þa wæs heo of hyre ryhtgewitte. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3838 Deofell..wile..ræfenn himm hiss rihhte witt. a1400 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 218 (MED) Lorde almiȝt, blessed mote þu be..many..benefetys þat þu haste yeuene to me..riȝt wittys and riȝt lemys. 1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 80 (MED) I, Robert Schapman, in Rithe mynde, make my testement in this forme. 1487 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1869) IV. 23 I, beyng in my right witte and mynde.., hole and not seke. c1510 Gesta Romanorum (de Worde) L iij Fader, quod he, it semeth yt thou arte out of thy ryght minde. a1560 Remembrance Passion in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 228 Him ȝat hes grantit the thy richt wittis, and all ȝe partis of ȝi body. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vii. 45 So also Harry Monmouth being in his right wittes, and his good iudgements, turn'd away the fat Knight. View more context for this quotation 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables lxviii. 67 What Man in his Right Senses..would make himself a Slave for Superfluities! 1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. §8, in Wks. (1871) III. 306 By such as are in their right mind. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xix. 291 It hath been said, that a non compos himself, though he be afterwards brought to a right mind, shall not be permitted to allege his own insanity in order to avoid such grant. 1818 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo Pref. He was evidently a very cultivated and amiable person when in his right senses. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 45 He is not in his right mind, said Ctesippus; he is talking nonsense, and is stark mad. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Spacked, or Spact, ‘Not spact’ is not quite in his right wits. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xix. 358 You're not normal, you're not in your right senses. You're one of those half-insane, perverted women who must run after depravity. 1960 Blackwood's Mag. July 71 No fielder in his right mind attempts a running catch. 2005 C. Cleave Incendiary 167 You're not in your right mind.—No, said Petra. But the entire planet isn't in its right mind since May day so for pity's sake let's just roll with it. < as lemmas |
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