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UNSOUND MIND; UNSOUND MEMORY (law) and Petrel (medicine)


UNSOUND MIND; UNSOUND MEMORY (law)


UNSOUND MIND; UNSOUND MEMORY. These words have been adopted in several statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately used to signify, not only lunacy, statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately used to signify, not only lunacy, which is periodical madness, but also a permanent adventitious insanity as which is periodical madness, but also a permanent adventitious insanity as distinguished from idiocy. 1 Ridg. Parl. Cases, 518; 3 Atk. 171. distinguished from idiocy. 1 Ridg. Parl. Cases, 518; 3 Atk. 171. 2. The term unsound mind seems to have been used in those statutes in 2. The term unsound mind seems to have been used in those statutes in the same sense as insane; but they have been said to import that the party the same sense as insane; but they have been said to import that the party was in some such state as was contradistinguished from idiocy and from was in some such state as was contradistinguished from idiocy and from lunacy, and yet such is made him a proper subject of a commission to inquire lunacy, and yet such is made him a proper subject of a commission to inquire of idiocy and lunacy. Shelf. on Lun. 5; Ray, Med. Jur. Prel. Sec. 8; Hals. of idiocy and lunacy. Shelf. on Lun. 5; Ray, Med. Jur. Prel. Sec. 8; Hals. Med. Jur. 336; 8 Ves. 66; 19 Ves. 286; 1 Beck' s Med. Jur. 573; Coop. Ch. Med. Jur. 336; 8 Ves. 66; 19 Ves. 286; 1 Beck' s Med. Jur. 573; Coop. Ch. Cas. 108; 12 Ves. 447; 2 Mad. Ch. Pr. 731, 732. Cas. 108; 12 Ves. 447; 2 Mad. Ch. Pr. 731, 732.

Petrel (medicine)


petrel
<ornithology> Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera. Diving petrel, any bird of the genus Pelecanoides. They chiefly inhabit the southern hemisphere. Fulmar petrel, Giant petrel. See Fulmar. Pintado petrel, the Cape pigeon. See Cape. Pintado petrel, any one of several small petrels, especially Procellaria pelagica, or Mother Carey's chicken, common on both sides of the Atlantic.

Origin: F. Petrel; a dim. Of the name Peter, L. Petrus, Gr. A stone (John i.42); probably so called in allusion to St.Peter's walking on the sea. See Petrify.

Source: Websters Dictionary