affected by dementia; insane or mentally disturbed in a way that shows loss of normal mental function.
From Latin 'dementatus,' the past participle of 'dementare.' This form appears in medical and scientific terminology from the Renaissance onward.
This is a medical adjective that sounds almost clinical, but it was used in asylum records to describe the deepest levels of mental decline — a word as stark as the conditions it described.
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