dementation
nounEtymology From Latin dēmentātiō. By surface analysis, dement + -ation.
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Archaic The act of depriving of reason; madness.
- […] and so they aver to be drunk, or accessory to anothers Distemper (especially supposing the Distemper under command from breaking out into any other sins besides its own dementation, or stupidity) to be a lesse sin, than to call one Drunkard, on the bare sight of him in a Distemper, or but one slender Information.1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English: