LekhoriLekhoriA place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams," and discharged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
Lets follow the old Earle, and get the bedlom To lead him where he would, his rogiſh madnes Allows it ſelfe to any thing.
A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
A hamlet in Clint cum Hamlets parish, Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2661).
A hamlet in Bitterley parish, south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5877).
A hamlet in Great Elm parish, Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7549).
From Bedlam, alternative name of the English lunatic asylum, Bethlem Royal Hospital (royal hospital from 1375, mental hospital from 1403) (earlier St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate, hospice in ...
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