IN ONE'S RIGHT MIND Definition & Meaning

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in one's right mind

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In a healthy mental state; sane and rational. For example, No one in his right mind would ski down this icy slope . This expression is often used in a negative construction, as in the example. The positive sense appears in the New Testament (Mark 5:15), where a deranged man whom Jesus helped is now “sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind.” The antonym out of one's mind , as in You must be out of your mind to swim in that icy stream , is from the same period. [c. 1600] Also see go out of one's mind .

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Compos mentis, kom′pos ment′is, adj. phrase, in one's right mind—sometimes merely Compos.

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For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.

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Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound, sound-minded; lucid. self-possessed; sober, sober-minded. in one's sober senses, in one's right mind; in possession of one's faculties.

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The question remains, … what IS logic? … and what IS being in one's right mind?

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