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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: asylum (0.00880 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to asylum.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: asylum
rumah sakit, suaka
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: asylum
asylum
n 1: a shelter from danger or hardship [syn:
refuge,
sanctuary]
2: a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
[syn:
mental hospital,
psychiatric hospital,
mental institution
,
institution,
mental home,
insane asylum]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Asylum
Asylum
\A*sy"lum\, n.; pl. E.
Asylums, L.
Asyla. [L. asylum,
Gr. ?, fr. ? exempt from spoliation, inviolable; 'a priv. + ?
right of seizure.]
1. 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.
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So sacred was the church to some, that it had the
right of an asylum or sanctuary. --Ayliffe.
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Note: The name was anciently given to temples, altars,
statues of the gods, and the like. In later times
Christian churches were regarded as asylums in the same
sense.
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2. Any place of retreat and security.
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Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold
bosom. --Southey.
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3. 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.
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