The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mental \Men"tal\, a. [F., fr. L. mentalis, fr. mens, mentis, the mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind.] Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.
What a mental power
This eye shoots forth!
--Shak.
Mental alienation, insanity.
Mental arithmetic, the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.
Usage examples of "mental alienation".
The resurrection at our awakening-after that healing attack of mental alienation which is sleep-must after all be similar to what occurs when we recapture a name, a line, a refrain that we had forgotten.
Let me speak only of that one chamber, ever accursed, whither, in a moment of mental alienation, I led from the altar as my bride—.
Among his actual auditors, however, it merely gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation.