Bedlam

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.

(2): (n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.

(3): (n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.

(4): (a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

Originally a lunatic asylum in London, so named from the priory "Bethlehem" in Bishopsgate, first appropriated to the purpose, Bedlam being a corruption of the name Bethlehem.

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