Definition of Deficients

1. deficient [n] - See also: deficient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deficients

defibrinizes
defibrinizing
deficience
deficiences
deficiencies
deficiency
deficiency anaemia
deficiency disease
deficiency diseases
deficiency mutant
deficiency symptom
deficient
deficient number
deficient numbers
deficiently
deficients (current term)
deficit
deficit spending
deficits
defied
defier
defiers
defies
defiguration
defigure
defigured
defigures
defiguring
defilade
defiladed

Literary usage of Deficients

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"The methods for the education of deficients had their origin at the time of the French Revolution in the work of a physician whose achievements occupy a ..."

2. Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing by James Burt Miner (1918)
"(C) AS TO THE NUMBER OF deficients NOT DETECTED BY TESTS. If most of the feeble-minded for whom society should provide were of the type which is only ..."

3. The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy by Henry Algernon Percy Northumberland, Thomas Percy (1905)
"... to write th'Officers Surname to th'entent whensoever the deficients be ... not thraw the said deficients in an Officer neck whiche occupieth whiche ..."

4. The Regulations and Establishment of the Houshold [sic] of Henry Algernon by Henry Algernon Percy Northumberland, Thomas Percy (1770)
"... not thraw the faid deficients in an Officer neck whiche occupieth whiche Deficient was in the ..."

5. Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session by Mungo Ponton Brown, William Maxwell Morison, Scotland Court of Session (1826)
"ANSWERED,—This compensation was not inter eosdem, seeing the chargers had paid their excise, and he had action against the deficients. ..."

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