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  • 121Débil de mente — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Los términos «débil de mente» o «débil mental» son usados desde finales del siglo XIX a principios del XX, describiendo vagamente una serie de deficiencias mentales, incluyendo lo que ahora se considera retraso… …

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  • 122Bibliography — BOOKS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS ◘ Bell, Rudolph M. (1985). Holy Anorexia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ◘ Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. (1988). Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. Cambridge, MA:… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 123dotty —    eccentric or mentally ill    Originally, of unsteady gait, whence feeble and then feeble minded:     There might be a basis of truth, but I felt she was pretty dotty. (Manning, 1965) …

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  • 124dull — [adj1] unintelligent addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy, daft, dense, dim, dim witted, doltish, dumb, feeble minded, half baked, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent, insensate, low, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse,… …

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  • 125simple — [adj1] clear, understandable; easy child’s play*, cinch*, clean, easy as pie*, effortless, elementary, facile, incomplex, intelligible, light, lucid, manageable, mild, no problem*, no sweat*, not difficult, picnic*, piece of cake*, plain, quiet,… …

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  • 126dheu-4, dheu̯ǝ- (dhu̯ē-, extended dhuē̯ -k-, dhuē̯ -̆ s-) —     dheu 4, dheu̯ǝ (dhu̯ē , extended dhuē̯ k , dhuē̯ ̆ s )     English meaning: to reel, dissipate, blow, *smoke, dark, gray, deep etc.     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘stieben, wirbeln, especially von Staub, Rauch, Dampf; wehen, blow, Hauch, Atem;… …

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  • 127dot|ty — «DOT ee», adjective, ti|er, ti|est. 1. Informal. feeble minded; half witted; partly insane: »The most striking is Miss Hare, a dotty old oddity who goes on alone in her crumbling family mansion and at intervals sees a vision of God riding past in …

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  • 128sil|ly — «SIHL ee», adjective, li|er, li|est, noun, plural lies. –adj. 1. without sense or reason; foolish; ridiculous: »Baby talk is silly. Mamma says that she [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected…butterfly she ever r …

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