Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making demented.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of depriving of reason; madness.
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- noun archaic The act of depriving of
reason ;madness .
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Examples
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"Often malice proceeds deeper down, when it cannot extend itself" [Bengel]. their folly -- literally, "dementation": wise though they think themselves. shall be manifest -- Greek, "shall be brought forth from concealment into open day" [Bengel], (1Co 4: 5). as theirs ... was -- as that of those magicians was, when not only could they no longer try to rival Moses in sending boils, but the boils fell upon themselves: so as to the lice (Ex 8: 18; 9: 11).
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In the rare cases that a guy's sexual urges, or more appropriately, dementation overcomes the innate convulsion of incest, then it happens.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2003
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But as the ancient sage shrewdly observed, dementation is the prelude of doom; "whom the gods destroy they first infatuate."
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