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Home Dictionary Name: narrow mindedNarrow minded
Of narrow mental scope lacking tolerance or breadth of view illiberal mean Opposite of broad minded open minded liberal...
Bigotry
The state of mind of a bigot obstinate and unreasoning attachment of ones own belief and opinions with narrow minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them...
Person of unsound mind
Person of unsound mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18Geo. 5, c. 33) (see those titles, and LUNATICS).The statute law affecting persons of unsound mind in contained in the (English) Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, of which the principal are the (English) Lunacy Acts, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 5), 1891 (54 & 55 Vict., c. 56), and as regards Boards of Control, the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1927 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930 (S.R. & O., 1930 No. 1083). A classification of patients has been made as follows: (a) Voluntary (see the (English) Act of 1930, s. 1; (b) Temporary (ibid., s. 5 (1); (c) Certified [(English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 4]; (d) Found to be of unsound mind upon inquisition (see that title), and a further classification is into a pri...
Narrow
Of little breadth not wide or broad having little distance from side to side as a narrow board a narrow street a narrow hem...
Narrow seas
Narrow seas, those running between two coasts not far apart. The term is sometimes applied to the English Channel.The Firth of Forth is also 'narrow waters' as far as collision regulations are concerned, Screw Collier Co. v. Kerr, 1910 AC 165....
Earthly minded
Having a mind devoted to earthly things worldly minded opposed to spiritual minded...
meeting of the minds
meeting of the minds :assent to the mutually agreed upon and understood terms of an agreement by the parties to a contract that may be manifest by objective signs of intent (as conduct) [the parties had not reached a meeting of the minds, and they did not have a specifically enforceable agreement "Franklin v. Stern, 858 P.2d 142 (1993) (dissent)"] ...
state of mind exception
state of mind exception : an exception to the hearsay rule that allows the use of hearsay evidence regarding the state of mind of the declarant (as in a statement of intent or motive) ...
Low minded
Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things showing a base mind...
mind boggling
intellectually or emotionally overwhelming straining ones capacity to comprehend or cope as a mind boggling display a mind boggling puzzle...
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