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non compos en · ADJ

Etymology

Latin

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of non compos mentis.
    • ‘I don’t mean,’ […] ‘that you have been non compos, and were locked up, you know; but the information I desire to elicit is whether you have been among the maddies over the water.’ 1868 November, an Outsider [pseudonym], “Inside Bedlam”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, page 456, column 2:
    • When Noah in ark, with his ſons did embark, / Prediluvians, uplifted and pompous, / Deem’d his nautical ſcheme a fantaſtical dream, / And pronounc’d the projector non compos. 1786 November, The County Magazine, for the Years 1786 and 1787, volume I, Salisbury: […] B. C. Collins, and by S. Crowder, in London, published 1788, page 173: