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. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor.

Idiocy. [R.]

Rendered idiotic; befooled. [R.] Tennyson.

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.

In a idiotic manner.

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

Like an idiot; foolish.

ssion, or signification, peculiar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

To become stupid. [R.]

Idiocy. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay. Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden.

ervators of the peace of the two kingdoms. Clarendon. The conservator of the estate of an idiot. Bouvier. Conservators of the River Thames, a board of comissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.

Stupid; folish; idiotic; also, delirious; insance; as, he has gone daft. Let us think no more of this daft business Sir W. Scott.

To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South.…

To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

A fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.