a. and sb. [f. APHASIA + -IC.]
A. adj. Suffering from aphasia, having lost the power of speech.
1867. Chamb. Jrnl., XXXVIII. 86/2. Most aphasic patients answer very well by signs.
1880. Bastian, Brain, xxix. 649. He had regained the power of speaking to a considerable extent, and now … he had become Amnesic rather than Aphasic.
B. sb. = APHASIAC (which is more analogical).
1867. Chamb. Jrnl., XXXVIII. 85/2. We must now turn our attention to the writing of aphasics.
1869. Hunt, in Eng. Mech., 7 May, 147/1. I call him an aphasic in whom the signs of thought cannot manifest themselves.
