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ID'IOT, n.[L. idiota; Gr. private,vulgar,unskilled, peculiar, that is, separate, simple. See Idiom.]

1. A natural fool or fool from his birth; a human being in form, but destitute of reason, or the ordinary intellectual powers of man.

A person who has understanding enough to measure a yard of cloth, number twenty correctly, tell the days of the week, &c., is not an idiot in the eye of the law.

2. A foolish person; one unwise.
1913 Definition
Idiot (idiot)
n.(***ibreve]d"***ibreve]*t)
Id"i*ot
[F. idiot, L. idiota an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. 'idiw`ths, also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, fr. 'i`dios proper, peculiar. See Idiom.]
  1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
    [Obs.]

    St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor.

  2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
    [Obs.]

    Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis. C. Blount.

  3. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.

    Life . . . is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.     Shak.

  4. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.

    Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame? Chaucer.

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