non compos mentis in a sentence

Examples

1. He had been diagnosed as " non compos mentis " by a doctor, and in his foggy netherworld the phrase was a matter of personal pride.
2. The mental condition of her mother continued to deteriorate in the ensuing years and she was declared " non compos mentis " in 1666 by local magistrates.
3. He pleaded guilty to killing the lobbyist and declared " " Non compos mentis " ", thus committing him into a mental asylum rather than to prison.
4. He found Culp to be very intelligent, quite a contrast to most actors, whom he described as " dips  strictly " non compos mentis . ""
5. Someone might also want to RevDel that email address as a courtesy, as I'd say it's distinctly possible that this user is " non compos mentis ".
6. Linguists would be well acquainted with many legal terms, especially the Latin terms, unless they are non compos mentis . :-) StuRat 04 : 30, 30 August 2006 ( UTC)
7. Another Latin phrase related to our current concept of sanity is " compos mentis " ( lit . " sound of mind " ), and a euphemistic term for insanity is " non compos mentis ".
8. Some relating words such as'insane','mad', and'lunatic'used more frequently in psychiatry; however the laws against suicide and the verdicts " felo de se and " " Non compos mentis " had never faded until the late nineteenth century.
9. At the trial, held in mid-June, character witnesses testified that Dixon was " a harmless, inoffensive man, but destitute of business capacity " and " in reply to the question whether Dixon was " non compos mentis,"
10. He was again arrested, but his aunt, Maria Bakunin, who at the time was a professor of chemistry at the University of Naples, succeeded in having him released by convincing the authorities that her nephew was " non compos mentis ".