>What does "mattoidal" mean?
Pug gave you the context, but there's this great thing called dictionary.com that has this helpful definition:
>mattoid
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>\Mat"toid\, n. [It. matto mad (cf. L. mattus, matus, drunk) + -oid.]
>A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or
>degeneracy.