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a morphine derivative diacetyl morphine used to relieve severe pain and as a sedative It is highly addictive and its use is strictly controlled in the US by federal law It is a popular strong narcotic drug of abuse in part because it is more soluble than morphine It is sometimes included as one of the components of Bromptons mixture used to control pain in terminallly ill patients...
not guilty by reason of insanity
not guilty by reason of insanity 1 : a plea by a criminal defendant who intends to raise an insanity defense used in jurisdictions that require such a plea in order for an insanity defense to be presented 2 : a verdict rendered by a jury in a criminal case that finds that the defendant was insane at the time of committing the crime as determined by application of the test for insanity used in the jurisdiction compare guilty but mentally ill NOTE: A verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity usually results in the commitment of the defendant to a mental institution. Such a verdict, however, may allow the defendant to be released, sometimes into the custody or care of another (as a family member). ...
Misbehave
To behave ill to conduct ones self improperly often used with a reciprocal pronoun...
Adultery
Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double.By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not infrequently obtained by a private Act of Parliament) upon the ground of his wife's adultery, and a wife could obtain a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, or a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery coupled with cruelty or desertion or bigamy, or of his incestuous adultery, provided there be...
Natured
Having such a nature temper or disposition disposed used in composition as good natured ill natured etc...
Abbreviation
Abbreviation, an abridging or contraction, very frequent in old statues, as of 'rationabilem' by 'ronabilem' (in the Statute de Pr'rogativa Regis) and of 'every' by 'evy' in 22 Hen. 8, c. 5, s. 4 and writings. The Act 4 Geo. 2, c. 26, provided that all law proceedings should be in the English language, written legibly and prescribed also that they shall be in words at length, and not abbreviated; but 6 Geo. 2, c. 14, permitted numbers to be expressed in figures, and such abbreviations as are commonly used. See 1923, W. N. 288. In 9 Rep. 48 is this maxim, Ille numerus et sensus abbreviationum accipiendus est ut concessio non sit inanis. (In abbreviations such number and sense is to be taken that the grant be not made void.) See REGNAL YEARS....
Mis
A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss wrong ill wrongly unsuitably as misdeed mislead mischief miscreant...
Malformation
Ill formation irregular or anomalous formation abnormal or wrong conformation or structure often used of body parts such as limbs which do not develop properly during fetal maturation...
Dump
A thick ill shapen piece a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing...
Bromptons mixture
A mixture containing morphine and cocaine and sometimes other narcotic substances such as heroin in an alcoholic solution administered mostly to terminally ill patients especially cancer patients to relieve severe pain Its use is not universally accepted as good medical practice...
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