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Imʹbecile (3 syl.)

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One mentally weak. Literally, one who leans “on a stick.” (Latin, imbecillis, from inbacillum.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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