The typical poet of the end of the 15th century is Guillaume Cretin (d.
The chief of these besidesCretin were Jean Molinet (d.
Cretin was not worse than his fellows; but when even such a man as Marot could call him a poete souverain, Rabelais no doubt felt it time to protest in his own way.
This, as times went, necessitated an admiration of Cretin and such like persons, and the practice of rondeaux, and of other poetry strict in form and allegorical in matter.
Because he doesn't deserve it," said Saxe, who also made a point of giving the unfortunate cretin an object which set his eyes rolling with delight every time it was taken out.
But one cretin was there, a poor silly lad, one of the many miserable creatures, who on account of their poverty and need, always make their home among the families of Canton Valais and remain with each but a couple of months.
The poorcretin crept to his bed and was not seen all day, but towards evening he came to Rudy, and said: "Write a letter for me.
The cretin is an idiot--a melancholy spectacle--a creature who may almost be said to rank a step below a human being.
Some are glad to have a poor cretin or a case of goitre in the family, that they may have an additional plea to put in for charity.
It is very commonly accompanied by idiocy; and, in fact, the Cretin is one of the most distressing objects that can be seen.
I do not think that AJAX'S suggestion "credentes" as the derivation of Cretincan be substantiated.
In the midst of the uproar I should perhaps have fallen a victim to the frenzy that possesses a crowd excited by its own outcries and stirred up by one common feeling, but the cretin saved my life!
Far be it from me to blame them for it; has not their cult of the cretin often furnished me with an argument when I have tried to induce those who had possession of their faculties to help the unfortunate?
The cretin whom you have just seen, not having returned to his house, had not been taken away, so that the next morning he was the sole remaining example of his species in the village.
Janvier, "the poor cretinand Pere Pelletier were buried at different hours.
The cretin was the one variety of the human species with which the commandant had not yet come in contact.
Both of these new families needed houses, as well as the basket-maker and twenty-two others from the cretin village, soon afterwards twelve more households were established in the place.
The cretin begins to grow mentally and physically and loses to a large extent the grotesqueness of his appearance.
It is characterized mainly by marked dwarfism and imbecility, so that the adult untreated cretin remains about as large as a three or four-year-old child and has the mental level about that of a child of the same age.
The cretinis a travesty on the human being in body, mind and character.
Not only so, but that there are districts in the Alps and outside of them (even in our own country) where goitre is not rare, but where the cretin is unknown.
Guggenbuehl demonstrated that some half-cretins may even become useful members of society if they are taken in hand early in life, but they did not show that the nature of the true or complete cretin could be altered.
A large proportion of the cretins who will be born in the next generation will undoubtedly be offspring of cretin parents.
Nor will the house which has been built at Aosta to contain two hundred cretin beggars do much, unless the inmates are restrained from perpetuating their own degradation.
The deformed body of the cretinlay crushed beneath the weight of the enormous fragment.
The cretin gazed scrutinisingly at me for some time, as much as to say, "Ha!
The poor cretin crept away to his bed, and nothing was seen of him during the whole of the following day.
But, in order that these data should be of value, the observed anomalies and defects of the cerebral functions ought to be capable of being referred to careful morphological investigations of the cretin brain.
The cretin is generally deaf and dumb, or only able to give a hoarse cry.
In Switzerland it is estimated that in some cantons there is one cretin to every 25 inhabitants.
If the cretin is untreated he rarely has a long life, thirty years being an exceptional age.
The child cretin learns neither to walk nor talk at the usual time.
The mental capacity varies within narrow limits; an intelligent adult cretin may reach the intellectual development of a child 3-4 years of age, though more often the standard attained is even below this.
Grace succeeded Bishop Cretin as bishop of St. Paul, and was himself succeeded by the Right Reverend John Ireland, in July, 1884.
She had a bad night and dreamed about the cretinshe had seen near the Schreckbrücke.
At first she did not want to tell me, but when I insisted she confessed reluctantly that the unfortunate cretin had come into her mind, and that for an instant she had felt afraid he might suddenly jump up from the roadside.
Finally, as regards the thyroid, a comparison of the face of a cretin with that of the Negro or Mongol tells the story.
A cretin imitates the extreme grade of infantiloid constitution.
The cretin is the classic type of mental deficiency due to endocrine insufficiency, curable or improvable by the proper handling.
The history of a cretin runs somewhat as follows: A baby is born, which in all appearances seems normal.
Too much thyroxin can be introduced into the system of a normal individual, or even a cretin by the simple administration of too large doses or over too long a time.
On the other hand, the subthyroid face is that of the cretin and cretinoid idiot, in a mild degree.
In a few days the cretin will get warmer, and require much less wrapping and bed-clothing.
Gradually hair and skin return to the previous cold-blooded animal state, and the whole picture of the cretin is in full bloom.
Cretin mated with cretin and consequently a large new supply was constantly produced.
The cretin is insensible to pain or annoyance, and seems to have as little sensation as an oyster.
To understand fully what was to be accomplished, in order to transform the young cretin into an active, healthy child, it is necessary that we should glance at his physical and mental condition, when placed under treatment.
The next step was, to teach the cretin some knowledge of objects around him, animate and inanimate, and of his relations to them.
Here he gathered about thirty cretin children, mostly under ten years of age, and began his work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cretin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ament; clot; cretin; defective; fool; idiot; imbecile; moron; natural; simpleton; zany
