See bedlam on Wiktionary
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"text": "It was a ſhrewd ſaying of the old Monk, That two kind of Priſons would ſerve for all offenders in the World, an Inquiſition and a Bedlam: If any man ſhould deny the Being of a God and the Immortality of the Soul, ſuch a one ſhould be put into the firſt of these, the Inquiſition, as being a deſperate Heretick; but if any man ſhould profeſs to believe theſe things, and yet allow himſelf in any known wickedneſs, ſuch a one ſhould be put into Bedlam; becauſe there cannot be a greater folly and madneſs, than for a man in matters of greateſt moment and concernment to act againſt his beſt Reaſon and Underſtanding, and by his Life to contradict his Belief.",
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"text": "“There ’s another fellow,” muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a-week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I ’ll retire to Bedlam.”",
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"text": "Make a note of it: in man’s heaven there are no exercises for the intellect, nothing for it to live upon. It would rot there in a year—rot and stink. Rot and stink—and at that stage become holy. A blessed thing: only the holy can stand the joys of that bedlam.",
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"ref": "1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 123:",
"text": "Firſt, The Pilgrims were cloathed with ſuch kind of Raiment, as was diverſe from the Raiment of any that Traded in that fair. The people therefore of the fair made a great gazing upon them: Some ſaid they were Fools, ſome they were Bedlams, and ſome they are Outlandiſh-men.",
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"An insane person; a lunatic; a madman."
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"lunatic",
"lunatic"
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[
"madman",
"madman"
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"(obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman."
],
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"uncountable"
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"ref": "1664, John Tillotson, “Job xxviij. 28.”, in Sermons Preach’d upon Several Occasions, London: […] A[nne] M[axwell] for Sa[muel] Gellibrand, […], published 1671, →OCLC, page 76:",
"text": "It was a ſhrewd ſaying of the old Monk, That two kind of Priſons would ſerve for all offenders in the World, an Inquiſition and a Bedlam: If any man ſhould deny the Being of a God and the Immortality of the Soul, ſuch a one ſhould be put into the firſt of these, the Inquiſition, as being a deſperate Heretick; but if any man ſhould profeſs to believe theſe things, and yet allow himſelf in any known wickedneſs, ſuch a one ſhould be put into Bedlam; becauſe there cannot be a greater folly and madneſs, than for a man in matters of greateſt moment and concernment to act againſt his beſt Reaſon and Underſtanding, and by his Life to contradict his Belief.",
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"ref": "1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XIV, stanza LXXXIV, page 157:",
"text": "Shut up the world at large, let Bedlam out;\nAnd you will be perhaps surprised to find\nAll things pursue exactly the same route,\nAs now with those of soi-disant sound mind.",
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"ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 11:",
"text": "“There ’s another fellow,” muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a-week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I ’ll retire to Bedlam.”",
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"ref": "c. 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Letter II”, in Bernard DeVoto, editor, Letters from the Earth, New York, N.Y., Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, published 1962, →LCCN, page 13:",
"text": "Make a note of it: in man’s heaven there are no exercises for the intellect, nothing for it to live upon. It would rot there in a year—rot and stink. Rot and stink—and at that stage become holy. A blessed thing: only the holy can stand the joys of that bedlam.",
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "gžanocʻ",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "գժանոց"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
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"neuter"
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"word": "galehus"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "gekkenhuis"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "pandemonio"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "hullunmylly"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "sekasorto"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "kaaos"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "cour du roi Pétaud"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "pétaudière"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Tollhaus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Irrenhaus"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Chaos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "tébolyda"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "bolondokháza"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "őrültekháza"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "džumbus",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "џумбус"
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{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Klommua"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bajzel"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alvoroço"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cafarnaum"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "motim"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tumulto"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "balamuc"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "haos"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zăpăceală"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bedlám",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "бедла́м"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xáos",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "ха́ос"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bardák",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "барда́к"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sumasšédšij dom",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "сумасше́дший дом"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"word": "pandemonio"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"note": "tımarhane; çok gürültülü, kaotik bir yer, ortam",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"singular"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bedlam",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бедлам"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "boževilʹnja",
"sense": "place or situation of chaos",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "божевільня"
}
],
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"Bethlem Royal Hospital"
],
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}
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