Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or showing the lesions of presenility.
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- adjective Before the
onset ofsenility .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There were also cases of postpartum depression, depressions that accompanied other diseases, presenile depressions—depressions indeed for every stage and style of life.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Our great editors and pundits have apparently decided to avert their eyes from a rageaholic president with presenile dementia who needs to have answers fed to him from a boxy receiver because -- well, at least he's not conceited.
Howling Wolf: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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The assistant failed, but, instead, in 1907, he discovered neuropathological changes characteristic of a form of presenile dementia which now bears his nameAlzheimer.27
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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The assistant failed, but, instead, in 1907, he discovered neuropathological changes characteristic of a form of presenile dementia which now bears his nameAlzheimer.27
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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The assistant failed, but, instead, in 1907, he discovered neuropathological changes characteristic of a form of presenile dementia which now bears his nameAlzheimer.27
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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For anyone in the President's position, reluctance to debate or to speak off-the-cuff, and hesitation before speaking at all, are indicative not of failing faculties or presenile dementia but of good old-fashioned common sense!
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Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, can represent only one diagnosis, and that is "presenile dementia"!
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Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, can represent only one diagnosis, and that is "presenile dementia"!
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Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, can represent only one diagnosis, and that is "presenile dementia"!
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Joseph Price's "diagnosis" of President Bush's more recent speaking difficulties as "presenile dementia" is at once laughable and grossly irresponsible.
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