hebe-
(hiːbiː)
used as combining form of Gr. ἥβη youth, also puberty, down of puberty, taken in senses a. Pubescence (in botanical terms), as in hebeˈanthous a. [Gr. ἄνθος flower], having the corolla of the flower pubescent (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1854). hebeˈcarpous a. [Gr. καρπός fruit], having pubescent fruit (ibid.). hebecladous (hiːˈbɛklədəs), a. [Gr. κλάδος branch], having pubescent branches (ibid.). hebegynous (-ˈɛdʒɪnəs) a. [Gr. γυνή female: see -gynous], having pubescent ovaries (ibid.). hebeˈpetalous a., having pubescent petals (ibid.). b. Puberty, as in hebeˈphrenia [Gr. ϕρήν mind], a form of insanity incident to the age of puberty (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886). hebeˈphreniac a. and n., (a person) affected with hebephrenia; also hebeˈphrenic a. and n.
| 1883 W. A. Hammond Treat. Insanity 556 Hebephrenia..is the term applied to the insanity of pubescence. 1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXIX. 89 Hebephrenia is featured by silliness, incongruity, mannerisms etc. 1956 C. P. Snow Homecomings 348 He lay on his back, his legs relaxed, like a figure on a tomb or one in a not disagreeable state of hebephrenia. |
| 1884 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XI. 303 Imperative conceptions are relatively frequent among hebephreniacs. 1885 Ibid. XII. 516 (heading) Autopsy findings in a hebephreniac. 1908 Practitioner Jan. 12 The patient may gradually become imbecile and demented—the hebephrenic type. 1915 C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanalytic Method 542 Dementia praecox (in catatonic, hebephrenic and paranoid forms). 1938 S. Beckett Murphy 168 A hebephrenic playing the piano intently. 1973 ‘E. McBain’ Let's hear It v. 59 He considered them [sc. the police] obsolete and essentially hebephrenic. |