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bedlam
English
Etymology
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 existence from 1329, priory established 1247), since used to mean “a place or situation of madness and chaos”. Bedlam as name of hospital attested 1450.
Phonologically, corruption of Bethlem, itself a corruption of Bethlehem (the Biblical town), from Ancient Greek ??????? (B?thleém) from Biblical Hebrew ????? ?????? (bê? le?em, literally “house of bread”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?dl?m/
Noun
bedlam (plural bedlams)
- A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
- (obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
- ca. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, sc. 7:
- Let's follow the old Earl, and get the Bedlam
- To lead him where he would; his roguish madness
- Allows itself to anything.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian overtakes Faithful:
- The pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The people, therefore, of the fair, made a great gazing upon them: some said they were fools, some they were bedlams, and some they are outlandish men.
- ca. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, sc. 7:
- (obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
- 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIV:lxxxiv:
- Shut up the world at large, let Bedlam out;
- And you will be perhaps surprised to find
- All things pursue exactly the same route,
- As now with those of soi-disant sound mind.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol":
- “There’s another 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.”
- ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter II:
- ... only the holy can stand the joys of that bedlam.
- 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIV:lxxxiv:
Descendants
- ? Russian: ??????? (bedlám)
Translations
Further reading
- Bethlem Royal Hospital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- bedlam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- ambled, balmed, beldam, blamed, lambed
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vociferation
English
Etymology
From Latin v?cifer?ti?, from v?ciferor (“shout”), from v?x (“voice”) + fer? (“carry”); compare French vocifération.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /v???s?f.???e?.??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /vo??s?f.???e?.??n/
Noun
vociferation (plural vociferations)
- The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- Crack go the whips; but twenty Patriot arms have seized each of the eight bridles: there is rearing, rocking, vociferation; not the smallest headway.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:vociferation.
Related terms
- vociferate
- vociferative
- vociferous
- vociferously
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