Deaf-and-dumb definition
Of, for, or being a person unable to hear or speak.
adjective
Being deaf and not knowing how to speak. Usually physically able to speak.
adjective
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The state institution for the education of the deaf and dumb (1854) and the state institution for the blind (1848) are at Jackson.
There are also many flourishing charities, including an excellent hospital and a school for the deaf and dumb.
The charitable institutions include the county hospital, district asylum, a deaf and dumb home, the Kyle combination poorhouse, St John's refuge and industrial schools for boys and girls.
Among the educational establishments are a gymnasium, and Realschule, the Sophienstift (a large school for girls of the better class, founded by the grand-duchess Sophia), the grand-ducal school of art, geographical institutes, a technical school, commercial school, music school, teachers' seminaries, and deaf and dumb and blind asylums. An English church was opened in 1899.
Its principal buildings are an old palace, formerly the residence of the bishops of Augsburg and now government offices, a royal gymnasium, a Latin school with a library of 75,000 volumes, seven churches (six Roman Catholic), two episcopal seminaries, a Capuchin monastery, a Franciscan convent and a deaf and dumb asylum.