Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

I wish, says he, the Captain may be Compos Mentis, he talks of a saucy Trumpet, and a Drum that carries Messages; then who is this Charte Blanche?

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Albright and Compos both stepped to the rock and stood looking with those narrowed, concentrated eyes.

From Tharon of Lost Valley by Johnson, Frank Tenney

Presently Dick Compos stepped forward, leaned down and searched the wall at the left.

From Tharon of Lost Valley by Johnson, Frank Tenney

One of them is to be found in the beginning of Galen's fifth book de Compos, medic.: it is taken from the temple of Phthas, near Memphis, and is the least interesting of the whole.

From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An