There is a tangled semantic web of words such as 'idiot', 'lunatic', fatuus, stultus, mente captus, non
compos mentis, lucida intervalla, that is not resolved by appeals to the written record.
Bentwood who lives in the desert (which Gaitis illustrates with Mahleresque descriptions of the flora fauna and monsoons) is like Chance the Gardener pretty much non
compos mentis. So is the President.
I believe he wasn't diagnosed until June, and I saw him only on Sunday, when he knew he was dying but was totally
compos mentis and was reflecting upon what had been a pretty good life.
to show I was
compos mentis, many years ago, after getting busted by the Tories for smack on their plane.
group dynamics with his new piece, "Non
Compos Mentis." The work features a large group, with a soloist, and shifts between surreal slowness and dynamic motifs.
In addition, Lederer has also patiently sifted the minutes of Bavaria's Aulic Council (Hofrat), which investigated over three hundred suicides between 1611 and 1670 trying to determine whether these "self-murderers" were
compos mentis (Lederer has already published five articles in German and one in English about suicide in Bavaria [340]).
What is the meaning of the Latin term non
compos mentis?
"I know even if she did not want to talk to us, if she were fully
compos mentis I know we would have had a postcard to say she was all right and just angry with my dad.
'The Circus' concludes the exhibition with the series of drawings made by Lautrec when he was interned in 1899 to prove to the doctors that he was
compos mentis. Exquisitely drawn but exceedingly strange, they are psychologically far removed from the spectacle of Montmartre.
There I was, shufflin' down an aisle suffering a mild case of
compos mentis Alpo[TM], a condition in which your brain assumes the consistency of a popular brand of canned dog food, when BANG!, a detonation reverberated through the place from somewhere off to my three o'clock.
``I'm a much better mother now as well because I'm
compos mentis.