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Idiot   /ˈɪdiət/   Listen
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Idiot  n.  
1.
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. (Obs.) "St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons."
2.
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus. (Obs.) "Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis."
3.
A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool. In a former classification of mentally retarded people, idiot designated a person whose adult level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. level of approximately 25 or less. "Life... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
4.
A fool; a simpleton; a term of reproach. "Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame?"





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"Idiot" Quotes from Famous Books



... youth must have drunk from some poisoned cup, something which turned our blood into quicksilver. I must live, or I must die. I must have excitement every hour, every second, or break down. There are others too—many others. No wonder that that idiot of a man in Harley Street talked to me gravely about my heart. No excitement. A quiet life! Bah! Such wishy-washy coffee and ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... an idiot," admitted Mr. Blunt, in the same matter-of-fact voice. "But she confessed to myself only the other day that she suffered from a sense of unreality. I told her that at any rate she had her own feelings surely. ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... "If MacMaine deserted his former allegiance, knowing that they had a method of rendering the action of a space drive indetectable, then he was and is a blithering idiot. And ...
— The Highest Treason • Randall Garrett
... told you that makes you so stupid? You played the prude—I didn't know—Oh! yes, yes, now I remember; that's what it is—What was it you said to me about the little one? I believe you didn't want anyone to touch him! Idiot!" ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
... evidently without the least unamiable intent, it made us both feel very cheap. After all, it WAS absurd to ask a man if he were surprised to find the country changed after fifty or sixty years of absence. Unless he was an idiot, and unable to read at that, he must have expected ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)


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