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chaos: a state of extreme confusion and disorder pejorative terms for an insane asylum
출처: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Bethlehem was shortened to Bedleem and Bedlem in Middle English. The hospital was nicknamed Bedlam from early on. From the early 16th century, bedlam also came to mean `mad'. Shakespeare, in Henry 6th, speaks of "the bedlam brain-sick duchess" (1590s?). This use lasted to the early 18th century, but the late 16th century was already using bedlamite.
출처: www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mhhglo.htm
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the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, founded as a priory in 1247; by 1402, it was a hospital or asylum for lunatics; by extension, any madhouse (1663); hence, any scene of mad confusion (1667).
출처: www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva116.ht...
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