Definition of "mental" []

• Of or relating to the mind; intellectual: mental powers. (adjective)
• Executed or performed by the mind; existing in the mind: mental images of happy times. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or affected by a disorder of the mind. (adjective)
• Intended for treatment of people affected with disorders of the mind. (adjective)
• Of or relating to telepathy or mind reading. (adjective)

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• "Psychology, even so empirical a psychology as is possible of demonstration in western schools and colleges, evidences the fact that there is a far greater field of mental operation than is covered by the outer, or _mental_ consciousness."
• "Western Science, while performing a marvelous work in piling up fact after fact to support its newly-discovered theory of Evolution, in a way utterly unknown to the Oriental thinker who seeks after principles by mental concentration -- _within_ rather than without -- while actually proving by physical facts the _mental_ conceptions of the"
• "They need a positive mental (Int or Wis in this case) which follows the +physical/+mental/- anything format."