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mental disease

mental disease : an abnormal mental condition that interferes with mental or emotional processes and internal behavioral control and that is not manifest only in repeated criminal or antisocial conduct ;broadly : mental illness NOTE: Mental disease and mental illness are in general use synonymous, but mental disease has developed a settled meaning in criminal law while mental illness is often explained or defined by reference to the medical community's understanding of the term. ...


Misimprovement

Ill use or employment use for a bad purpose...


ill use

to treat badly...


ill used

taken advantage of treated badly of persons...


Illtreat

To treat cruelly or improperly to ill use to maltreat...


Ill favored

Wanting beauty or attractiveness unattractive deformed ugly ill looking usually used of a face as an ill favored countenance...


Intentioned

Having designs chiefly used in composition as well intentioned having good designs ill intentioned having ill designs...


Luck

That which happens to a person an event good or ill affecting ones interests or happiness and which is deemed casual a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance chance hap fate fortune often ones habitual or characteristic fortune as good bad ill or hard luck Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck as luck is better than skill a stroke of luck...


De bene esse

De bene esse. To take or do anything de bene esse is to accept or allow it as well done for the present; but when it comes to be more fully examined or tried, to stand or fall according to the merit of the thing in its own nature (Jac. Law Dict.). in modern times the term is chiefly used in reference to an examination, out of Court and before trial, of witnesses who are old, dangerously ill, or about to leave the country, on the terms that if the witnesses continue ill or absent, their evidence be read at the trial, but if they recover or return, the evidence be taken in the usual manner. Now by R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVII., r. 5, the Court may, in any cause or matter where it shall appear necessary for the purposes of justice [see Bidder v. Bridges, (1884) 26 Ch D 1], make any order for the examination upon oath before the Court or any officer of the Court, or any other person, and at any place, of any witness or person, and may empower any party to any such cause or matter to give suc...


chemotherapy

the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease or mental illness also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer...


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