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An idiot or born fool. (See Benet.)
“An idiot, or one otherwise deficient in intellect, is called an innocent.”—Trench: On the Study of Words, lecture iii. p. 97.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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