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Discover Ludwig"lunatic asylum" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a former term for a psychiatric hospital or institution for the treatment of mental illness. Example: "The abandoned building on the hill used to be a lunatic asylum, but now it is said to be haunted by the spirits of its former patients."
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lunatic asylum
noun
A facility designed where persons with serious mental disorders are housed.
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Welcome to the lunatic asylum".
"Is the world a lunatic asylum then?
357, 362; Herr v. Central Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, 98 Ky.
It was an orphanage, not a lunatic asylum.
Political conditions here now resemble those of a lunatic asylum.
Highlights include the Lunatic Asylum, outdoor sculpture and riverside views.
Discouraged, Semmelweis slipped into depression and was eventually committed to a lunatic asylum.
For her first assignment, she got herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum, on Blackwell's Island.
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That month, Whitman committed his brother Jesse to the Kings County Lunatic Asylum.
The state's first psychiatric hospital, the Worcester Lunatic Asylum, was authorized in 1830 and opened in 1833.
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