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▪ I. dement, a. and n.|dɪˈmɛnt|
[a. F. dément adj. and n., ad. L. dēmens, dēment-em out of one's mind, f. de- I. 6 + mens, mentem mind.]
A. adj. Out of one's mind, insane, demented. Obs. or arch.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 290 With mind dement vneis scho micht sustene The words. 1856J. H. Newman Callista (1890) 248 Speak, man, speak! Are you dumb as well as dement?
B. n. A person affected with dementia; one out of his mind.
1888H. A. S[mith] Darwin 43 A dement was known to the writer who could repeat the whole of the New Testament verbatim. 1890Mercier Sanity & Ins. xv. 379 An old dement begins to whimper because his posset is not ready.
▪ II. dement, v.1|dɪˈmɛnt|
[ad. L. dēmentāre to deprive of mind, drive mad (cf. OF. démenter, Godef.), f. dēmens, dēmentem, dement a.]
trans. To put out of one's mind, drive mad, craze.
1545Joye Exp. Dan. v. (R.), He was thus demented and bewitched with these pestilent purswasions. 1550Bale Apol. 80 Minysters of Sathan, whych thus seke to demente the symple hartes of the people. a1662Baillie Lett. II. 255 (Jam.) If the finger of God in their spirits should so far dement them as to disagree. 1703D. Williamson Serm. bef. Gen. Assembly 50 The Heathens used to say, whom the gods would destroy these they demented. 1890W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. viii, It would not require more than two or three incidents of this sort to utterly dement him.
Hence deˈmenting ppl. a.
1877C. M. Yonge Cameos Ser. iii. xxxi. 315 The dementing demon of the Stewarts.
▪ III. deˈment, v.2 rare—1.
[a. F. démentir, in OF. desmentir, f. des-, dé- (de- I. 6) + mentir:—L. mentīrī to lie.]
trans. To give the lie to; to assert or prove to be false.
1884H. S. Wilson Stud. Hist. 330 With firmness, she demented and disproved the lie. |
