Asylum

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any place of retreat and security.

II. Asylum ·noun A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.

III. Asylum ·noun An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

Related Words

asylum
ăsȳlum, i, n., = ἄσυλον, a place of refuge , a sanctuary , an asylum : servus, qui in illud asylum...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
asylum
asȳlum ī, n , ἄσυλον, a place of refuge, sanctuary, asylum: templa, quae asyla Graeci vocant, L.: i...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
asylum
A sanctuary or refuge; a name given to a benevolent institution at Greenwich, for 800 boys and 200 g...

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