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In a more restricted sense, lunacy is the state of one who has bad understanding, but by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of reason. Lunacy is adopted as a general term, on account of its general use as such in various legislative acts and legal proceedings, as commissions of lunacy, and in this sense it seems to be synonymous with non compos mentis, or of unsound mind. As a general term it includes all the varieties of mental, disorders, not fatuous. A disease of the mind, which is differently defined as it applies to a class of disorders, or only to one species of them.

Definition of lunacy