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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mental \Men"tal\, a. [L. mentum the chin.] (Anat.)
     Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve;
     the mental region.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Mental \Men"tal\, n. (Zool.)
     A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or
     reptile.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           What a mental power
           This eye shoots forth!                   --Shak.
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     {Mental alienation}, insanity.
  
     {Mental arithmetic}, the art or practice of solving
        arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by
        written figures.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mental
       adj 1: involving the mind or an intellectual process; "mental
              images of happy times"; "mental calculations"; "in a
              terrible mental state"; "mental suffering"; "free from
              mental defects" [ant: {physical}]
       2: of or relating to the mind; "mental powers"; "mental
          development"; "mental hygiene"
       3: of or relating to the chin- or lip-like structure in insects
          and certain mollusks
       4: of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
          [syn: {genial}]
       5: affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient";
          "mental illness"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  132 Moby Thesaurus words for "mental":
     abnormal, abstract, affective, balmy, bananas, barmy, batty,
     bereft of reason, bonkers, brainsick, cerebral, certifiable,
     characteristic, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating,
     concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized,
     constitutional, contemplating, contemplative, crackbrained,
     cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy, daft, deliberating, deliberative,
     deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented,
     dispositional, distraught, disturbed, emotional, endopsychic,
     excogitating, flighty, fruity, hallucinated, ideative, ideological,
     immaterial, innate, inner, insane, intellectual, intelligent,
     internal, introspective, irrational, loco, loony, lunatic, mad,
     maddened, maniac, manic, mazed, meditating, meditative,
     mentally deficient, mentally ill, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck,
     museful, musing, noetic, non compos, non compos mentis, noological,
     not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off,
     pensive, perceptual, phrenic, pondering, prehensive, psychic,
     psychical, psycho, psychologic, psychological, psychotic, queer,
     rational, reasoning, reasonless, reflecting, reflective, ruminant,
     ruminating, ruminative, screwy, senseless, serious, sick, sober,
     speculative, spiritual, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange,
     subjective, telepathic, temperamental, tetched, theoretical,
     thinking, thought, thoughtful, touched, unbalanced, unhinged,
     unsane, unsettled, unsound, unstable, wandering, wistful,
     witless
  
  

















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