lunatic asylum in English

hospital for the insane

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1. The court committed her to a lunatic asylum.

2. This great composer ended his days in a lunatic asylum.

3. 14 This great composer ended his days in a lunatic asylum.

4. At the beginning of the sixteenth century the word Bedlam was used by Tyndale to mean a madman, so that it would seem as though the hospital were now used as a lunatic asylum exclusively.

5. The Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, on the outskirts of London, was one of the first of the new state Asylums, and it set many of the standards for mental healthcare in the Victorian age.

6. From Bedlam, alternative name of the English lunatic asylum, Bethlem Royal Hospital (royal hospital from 1375, mental hospital from 1403) (earlier St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate, hospice in existence from 1329, priory established 1247), since used to mean “a place or situation of madness and chaos”

7. Bedlam (n.) "scene of mad confusion," 1660s, from colloquial pronunciation of "Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem" in London, founded 1247 as a priory, mentioned as a hospital 1330 and as a lunatic hospital 1402; it was converted to a civic lunatic asylum on dissolution of the monasteries in 1547.It was spelled Bedlem in a will from 1418, and Betleem is recorded as a spelling of Bethlehem in