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Definition of Mattoid
1. n. A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.
Definition of Mattoid
1. Adjective. Displaying erratic behaviour ¹
2. Noun. A person who displays such behaviour ¹
3. Noun. Compound of genius and fool ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mattoid
1. a mentally unbalanced person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mattoid
Literary usage of Mattoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heredity of Richard Roe: A Discussion of the Principles of Eugenics by David Starr Jordan (1911)
"It is true, as has The mattoid been said, ... The "mattoid" is full of "vibrancy";
he is affected by all sorts of conditions, external and internal. ..."
2. Alienist and Neurologist (1892)
"Haydon more clearly approximated the mattoid as his brain disease progressed ...
Lombroso cites, with evident amusement, the mattoid who proposed to use the ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1907)
"Mentally he is a typical mattoid without education. ... He presents the megalomania
of the mattoid, the oneness of idea, the persistence of purpose, ..."
4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1895)
"The true degenerate is never a real genius, bat a pseudo-genius, or, as Lombroso
calls him, a mattoid. It is this kind of person, the art and literary and ..."
5. The Dublin dissector or Manual of anatomy by Robert Harrison (1854)
"One of these is between the two mastoid muscles, and is therefore called ihe
inter.mattoid; the other two are above the clavicles on either side and are the ..."
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