From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Imbecile \Im"be*cile\, n.
1. One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; --
sometimes used as a pejorative term.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Psychology) A person with a degree of mental retardation
between that of an idiot and a moron; in a former
classification of mentally retarded person, it applied to
a person with an adult mental age of from four to eith
years, and an I.Q. of from 26 to 50.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Imbecile \Im"be*cile\, v. t.
To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
[Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Imbecile \Im"be*cile\, a. [L. imbecillis, and imbecillus; of
unknown origin: cf. F. imb['e]cile.]
Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble;
impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals
for the imbecile and insane.
Syn: Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
imbecile
adj 1: having a mental age of three to seven years [syn:
{imbecile}, {imbecilic}, {idiotic}]
n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: {idiot},
{imbecile}, {cretin}, {moron}, {changeling}, {half-wit},
{retard}]
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