dementive

Adjective

dementive

1. Causing, characterized by, or characteristic of dementia; senile.
   • It is essential to define if the brain atrophy detected in the patient is caused by normal aging or dementive disease or overlapping of both processes.2008, Ewa Pietka, Jacek Kawa, Information Technologies in Biomedicine, page 157
   • The incidence of dementive changes reported in the literature varies between 14% (Hoehn and Yahr 1967) and 81% (Martin et al. 1973).2012, F. Gerstenbrand, Werner Poewe, G. Stern, Clinical Experiences with Budipine in Parkinson Therapy
2. (dated) Having or describing the worst, most debilitating state of a mental disorder.
   • In nearly every case of madness there comes a period when all danger of injury to any one totally disappears, and dementive fatuity or general paralysis ensues.1870, J.S. Stallard, Pauper Lunatics and their treatment, etc., page 14
   • There is the dementive form and the depressed form, and it has been claimed by a good many writers that paresis is changing its type, from the fact that we find often, in cases where they have delusions of grandeur, that they are not so extravagant as they formerly were.1907, William M. Butler, Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York