Idiocy

Not the condition of a deranged mind, but the total absence of all mindiS A congenital disorder, consisting in a defect or sterility of the intellectual powers.* Idiot. One that hath had no understanding from his nativity.^ A person who has been defective in intellectual powers from birth, or from a period before the mind received the impression of any idea.^ ^ He is presumed never likely to attain any understanding. But a man is not an idiot if he hath any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or like common matters. One born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot. ^ See Insanity; Lunacy.