Dements

But that wasn't even the half of it, as the GRH's bedspace was massively congested with long-stay geriatric cases, screaming, shrieking dements, some of whom had been there for over a decade. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1996)

What nest of dements had he stumbled into, and why hadn't they gotten themselves cured long ago? ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

Then Norton - Was Lilisaire above using dements for purposes no sane person would touch? ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

If we tried to make our story public, we'd be called hoaxers or dements, and quite possibly committed for treatment. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

In short, we are not dealing here with paretics or senile dements, who, although being at the same time prisoners, remain subject to the same unavoidable lot of the paretic or the senile dement. ❋ Bernard Glueck (N/A)

It is quite true, Näcke concluded, that homosexual actions occur in every form of psychosis, especially in congenital and secondary dements, and at periods of excitement, but we are here more concerned with "pseudo-homosexuality" than with true inversion. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

He has not told us in the Bible; and who am I, to deal out God's thunders as if they belonged to me, and judge people of whose real merits and dements in God's sight I have no fair means of judging? ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Frequented by senile dements from the Fred Chopin Rest Home. ❋ Unknown (8)

The usual lineup of senile dements, Jamaican cut-throats, eurotrash traitors, welfare cheats, academic frauds, and high-school teachers made waiting an exercise in bowel control .... ❋ Unknown (8)

What better punishment for cheating the natives than his line dwindling to a couple of senile dements, saving his placebos like prayer beads. ❋ Unknown (8)