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noun

Madhouse n.

An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; usually used in a deprecatory sense.

Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, insane asylum, loony bin, nuthouse, sanatorium.

Hence: (fig.) A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered situation.

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Etymology of 'Madhouse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Madhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thus early did he show both aptitude for this form and excellence in it, for each of these pieces is a work of genius. They were meant to be studies in abnormal psychology, for they were printed together in the Dramatic Lyrics under the caption Madhouse Cells. Browning was very young then, and naturally thought a man who believed in predestination and a man who killed the woman he loved were both insane; but after a longer experience of life, and seeing ...

— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps

... look—you have, and a very grievous one. I speak as I think. You have been flying in the face of Providence, and doing worse than hiding the talent which was bestowed upon you for improvement. Do you think I should have behaved so at your age? Do you think any man in the last generation out of a madhouse would have done it? Here's your ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various

... won the case for Alfred by admitting in the witness-box that his brother Richard had declared that "if you don't put Alfred in a madhouse, I will ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VII • Various

... you he's an Ear, Eye and Throat specialist, you'd better do some investigation before letting him amputate your tongue. You'd better use your judgment before letting any doctor you don't really know about, work on you. It's a madhouse, Larry." ...

— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... bishops—could puzzle Gamaliel and delight Aquinas. Are you in love? Read 'A Last Ride Together,' 'Youth and Art,' 'A Portrait,' 'Christine,' 'In a Gondola,' 'By the Fireside,' 'Love amongst the Ruins,' 'Time's Revenges,' 'The Worst of It,' and a host of others, being careful always to end with 'A Madhouse Cell'; and we are much mistaken if you do not put Browning at the very head and front of the interpreters of passion. The many moods of sorrow are reflected in his verse, whilst mirth, movement, and ...

— Obiter Dicta • Augustine Birrell

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