ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dementation

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Dementation is a noun meaning (archaic) The act of depriving of reason; madness.

Meaning

(archaic) The act of depriving of reason; madness.

Example Sentences

[…] and so they aver to be drunk, or accessory to anothers Distemper (especially supposing the Distemper under command from breaking out into any other sins besides its own dementation, or stupidity) to be a lesse sin, than to call one Drunkard, on the bare sight of him in a Distemper, or but one slender Information.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include demency, passion, depravement, woodness, deliracy, disensanity.

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