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Bedlam   /bˈɛdləm/   Listen
noun
Bedlam  n.  
1.
A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
2.
An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. (Obs.) "Let's get the bedlam to lead him."
3.
Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.


adjective
Bedlam  adj.  Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess."





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"Bedlam" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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." ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... the same passions as we, only less disguised, and less subject to control. Deckar has given an admirable description of a mad-house in one of his plays. But it might be perhaps objected, that it was only a literal account taken from Bedlam at that time; and it might be answered, that the old poets took the same method of describing the passions and fancies of men whom they met at large, which forms the point of communion between us: for the title of the old play, "A Mad World, my Masters," is hardly ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... this?" said Mrs. Finley, opening the door; "one might as well try to sleep in Bedlam. Merciful man! who broke all those dishes? John Madison Harrison Polk! who broke all ...
— Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends • Fanny Fern
... History of the Life and Death of King Lear, and his three Daughters, with the unfortunate Life of Edgar, Sonne and Heire to the Earl of Glocester, and his sullen and assumed Humour of Tom of Bedlam, by his Majestie's servants. First Edit. 4to. ib. ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... and therefore a possible mistake. A sage and a maniac each thinks the other mad. The decision is a matter of majorities. Should a whole community become insane, it would nevertheless vote itself wise; if the craze of Bedlam were uniform, its inmates could not distinguish it from a Pantheon; and though all human history seemed to the gods only as a continuous series of mediaeval processions des sots et des anes, yet the topsy-turvy intellect of the world would ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 • Various


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