Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A facility designed where persons with serious mental disorders are housed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Examples
“The benevolent institutions maintained by the State include an insane asylum situated at Chattahoochee, a school for the blind, deaf, and dumb at St. Augustine, and a reform school for youthful delinquents at Marianna.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Or maybe she’s getting her own bedside phone at the insane asylum and wants to put you on auto-dial.”
“The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap.”
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
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