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Oaf

goblins hence a deformed or foolish child a simpleton an idiot

Slabber

fall from the mouth carelessly like a child or an idiot to drivel to drool

Idiot

A man in private station as distinguished from one holding a public office

Clerk of the custodies

Clerk of the custodies of lunatics and idiots; abolished, see 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 111; 3

Parens patriae

legal disability, stand in need of protection, such as infants, idiots, and lunatics.

Information

had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection

Fatuous persons

Fatuous persons, idiots. Includes express reference to 'breach of statutory duty' and to

De lunatico inquirendo, writ

whom, by special authority from the sovereign, the custody of idiots and lunatics is entrusted may, upon petition or information, grant

Idiotism

An idiom a form mode of expression or signification peculiar to a language

Chancellor, Lord

king's books. He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics, and has the general superintendence of all charitable

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