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Of unsound mind   /əv ənsˈaʊnd maɪnd/   Listen
Of unsound mind

adjective
1.
Not of sound mind, memory, or understanding; in law, not competent to go to trial.  Synonym: non compos mentis.






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"Of unsound mind" Quotes from Famous Books



... should not be preached to them. 29. If, however, they pretend that their church or their hearers simply are all pious men and Christians, without the Law, 30. Then it is evident that they are altogether of unsound mind and do not know what they say or affirm. 31. For this is nothing else than to imagine that all their hearers have been removed from this life. 35. Thus it [the Law] is also given to the pious, ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... committed suicide. The son arrived to find his father dead and his mother distracted by her bereavement. He took her away to the seaside for a rest, but on their return to the village she, too, committed suicide. And the jury did not say "Killed by Slander": they said "Suicide while of unsound mind." Oh, cautious jurymen! ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)



Words linked to "Of unsound mind" :   insane



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