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Webster 1913 Edition


Sanitarium

Sanˊi-ta′ri-um

,
Noun.
[NL. See
Sanitary
.]
A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.
“A sanitarium for troops.”
L. Oliphant.

Definition 2024


sanitarium

sanitarium

English

Noun

sanitarium (plural sanitariums or sanitaria)

  1. (US) Alternative form of sanatorium
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

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