Obs. [ad. L. āmentia madness, f. āment-em mad, f. ā away from + ment-em mind. Now used in Path. in L. form.] Madness.
1623. Cockeram, Amentie [ed. 1626 amenty], madnesse.
1650. Charleton, Paradoxes, 76. An Amenty or short alienation of the reason.
1879. Maudsley, Pathol. Mind, vii. 327. Amentia is … used to denote idiocy, or the privation of mind occasioned by causes that have acted before or soon after birth.
