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ruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple.

Imbecility; total want of understanding.

Like a babe; a childish; babyish. [R.] "Babish imbecility." Drayton. -- Bab"ish*ly, adv. -- Bab"ish*ness, n. [R.]

The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.

Capable of being brought down. [Obs.] As if God [were] deducible to human imbecility. State Trials (1649).

ss; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.

nt of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.

gor and energy of. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.] Despots have wilted the human race into sloth and imbecility. Dr. T. Dwight.