Meaning

• A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five to seven-year-old child.

• A fool, an idiot.

Meaning

• Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.

  "hospitals for the imbecile and insane"