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Definition of Idot

Id"i*ot (&ibreve;d"&ibreve;*&obreve;t), n. [F. idiot, L. idiota an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. 'idiw`ths, also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, fr. 'i`dios proper, peculiar. See Idiom.] 1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. [Obs.]

St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons.
Jer. Taylor.

2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus. [Obs.]

Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis.
C. Blount.

3. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.

Life . . . is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Shak.

4. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.

Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame?
Chaucer.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in
human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's
activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action,
but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in
everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and
opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes
conduct with a dead-line.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

  • A common term for a person of low general intelligence.
         usage note This may be used pejoratively, as an insult. It is a weak insult, however, and between close friends, family members, or lovers, is often completely nonaggressive.
  • A medical or psychological term meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.

    French
  • idiot

    Slovak
  • idiot

    Swedish
  • idiot


Idiot


    German
  • idiot
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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