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adjective

Sane adj.

Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; said of the mind.

Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; said of persons.

Synonyms: Sound; healthy; underanged; unbroken.

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— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... the ante-room when she had audience, and heard the king say, to my great perplexity, 'Pulchra sane puella;' and Maxwell, who hath but indifferent Latin ears, thought that his Majesty called on him by his own name of Sawney, and thrust into the presence, and there I saw our Sovereign James, with his own ...

— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

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— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... which you will have to hear before you see him. His mind is either completely gone, or terror and imprisonment have deadened it for the time. The other men who have been working with him say that he was sane enough when he was sober up to the time of the murder. Certainly he is not sane now. But that may well be a temporary thing caused by his ...

— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill

... cannot have forgotten the singular knife which was found in the dead man's hand, a knife which certainly no sane man would choose for a weapon. It was, as Dr. Watson told us, a form of knife which is used for the most delicate operations known in surgery. And it was to be used for a delicate operation that night. You must know, with ...

— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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