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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.

Abp. Tillotson.

An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.

[Obs.]

Let’s get the

bedlam

to lead him.

Shakespeare

Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.

Adj.

Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.

“The bedlam, brainsick duchess.”

Shak.

Noun.

[Corrupted from Bethlehem, the name of a religious house in London, afterward converted into a hospital for lunatics.]

A mad house; a place appropriated for lunatics.]

A madman; a lunatic; one who lives in Bedlam.

A place of uproar.

Adj.

Belonging to a mad house; fit for a mad house.