Feeble - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: feebleFeebleness
The quality or condition of being feeble debility infirmity...
Feeble-minded persons
Feeble-minded persons are one of the four classes of 'defectives' for dealing with whom elaborate provision is made by the (English) Mental Treatment Act, 1927 (18 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 33), s. 1; see IDIOT. As to Scotland, see the (English) Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 38)....
Imbecile
Destitute of strength whether of body or mind feeble impotent esp mentally wea feeble minded as hospitals for the imbecile and insane...
Caducity
Tendency to fall the feebleness of old age senility...
Crazy
Characterized by weakness or feebleness decrepit broken falling to decay shaky unsafe...
Debility
The state of being weak weakness feebleness languor...
Decrepit
Broken down with age wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age feeble worn out...
Dotage
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...
En
A prefix signifying in or into used in many English words chiefly those borrowed from the French Some English words are written indifferently with en or in For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em before p b and m as in employ embody emmew It is sometimes used to give a causal force as in enable enfeeble to cause to be or to make able or feeble and sometimes merely gives an intensive force as in enchasten See In...
Enervate
To deprive of nerve force strength or courage to render feeble or impotent to make effeminate to impair the moral powers of...
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