Definition of Idiocies

1. Noun. (plural of idiocy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Idiocies

1. idiocy [n] - See also: idiocy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiocies

ideoscape
ideoscapes
ides
ides of March
idesia
ideæ
ideæsthesia
idio-
idioagglutinin
idioblast
idioblastic
idioblasts
idiocentric
idiochromosomes
idiocies (current term)
idiocracies
idiocracy
idiocy
idiocyclophanous
idiodynamic
idiodynamic control
idioelectric
idioelectrics
idiogenesis
idiogenetic
idioglossia
idioglottic
idiogram

Literary usage of Idiocies

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

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"M. The idiocies and Imbecilities (Dependent upon Faulty Development of the Brain) ... The idiocies and imbecilities are nearly always organic diseases, ..."

2. A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1917)
"PATHOLOGIC idiocies Idiots with gross pathologic changes, such as hemiplegia and diplegia, occur with considerable frequency. There is always present a ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"Now in a general way it may be said that the simple idiocies without epilepsy ... The idiocies that are associated with tits and palsies are most often 'iue ..."

4. Something on Ruskinism: With a "vestibule" in Rhyme by Architect (1851)
"Apropos to those same idiocies, he, no doubt, takes the Exhibition scheme and the Crystal Palace to be foremost among them, inasmuch as they declare ..."

5. The Buried Ideal by Charles Lawson (1914)
"On the contrary, I can find it, despite its steady stupidities and occasional idiocies, generally salutary. For generally it speaks no theoretic Tightness, ..."

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