Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Erroneous forms of sanatorium, sanatory.
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- noun a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases
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Examples
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Ask not what country this has become, ask if there's not some nice quiet sanatarium in the country where Verso can be institutionalized.
"Al the Shoesalesman Gets a Tax Cut." Ann Althouse 2008
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If Cheney really believes this nonsense, he belongs in a sanatarium.
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He is as mad and one way as a strapped down nut case in a sanatarium…..
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His intention-which he had fulfilled within the month of taking possession-had been to establish his sanatarium for the treatment of mostly mental ills.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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"Where in the world did this canoe come from?" exclaimed Jack Markin, as he espied the boat in which Dorothy had escaped from the sanatarium.
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Margaret Penrose
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But many places about Moleem are so, especially towards Nonkreem; and it is much to be regretted that some situation in this part of the range had not been selected for the site of a sanatarium instead of Churra.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The space being much greater, and the country more level, it would be better as a sanatarium than Churra, besides which, its access is as easy, it being reached in one day from
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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A shrewd monk, the business manager of the monastery near by, wanted to buy Morgan's house, set up a sanatarium and advertise it as a holy place.
Welsh Fairy Tales William Elliot Griffis 1885
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Kandy to Neura-Ellia, a station established as a sanatarium, 6000 feet above the sea.
My First Voyage to Southern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Kandy, the native capital, thence it proceeds on to the sanatarium of
My First Voyage to Southern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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