1) American horror novel 2) Ancient Greek society 3) Ancient Roman religion 4) Bedlam 5) British Gothic novel 6) Good place to store your nuts 7) Haven 8) It may be sought 9) MacOS game 10) Place of refuge 11) Place of retreat 12) Political protection 13) Political shelter 14) Radio play based on Torchwood
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1) Haven 2) Madhouse 3) Nuthouse 4) Protection 5) Refuge 6) Retreat 7) Safehold
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- a shelter from danger or hardship
- a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
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[1991 video game] Asylum is an overhead shoot `em up arcade game developed by Leland in 1991. Play as characters Rip, Rak or Rol and throw weapons at weird enemies in the asylum, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance levels. The game only exists in prototype form and was never released. ...
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[Maximum] Asylum was a comic book anthology series published by Image Comics co-founder Rob Liefeld`s Maximum Press imprint, and featured several stories in each issue, including Tales of the Beanworld, Avengelyne and others. It ran for eleven issues in the late 1990s. ...
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[antiquity] In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, places existed where people facing persecution could seek refuge. These locations were largely religious in nature, such as temples and other religious sites. ==Ancient Greece== In ancient Greece the temples, altars, sacred groves, and statues of the gods generally possessed the privileges of ...
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• (n.) 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. • (n.) Any place of retreat and security. • (n.) An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum f...
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[Noun] A refuge or a place of safety.
Example: A church is often a place of asylum from evil in horror movies.
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in international law, the protection granted by a state to a foreign citizen against his own state. The person for whom asylum is established has no ... [14 related articles]
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Old term for an institution for the housing and care of those who by reason of age or mental or bodily infirmities are unable to care for themselves. ... Origin: L. Fr. G. Asylon, a sanctuary, fr. A-priv. + syle, right of seizure ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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A form of relief for which nationals of other countries can apply if they have suffered persecution in their home countries or if they have a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of certain protected characteristics. Persecution on account of sexual orientation, transgender identity and HIV-positive status have been found to be ground...
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Any place of refuge or sanctuary but usually an institution for the chronically unwell especially the insane but also TB
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(Learning Modules / Psychology / Measuring the unmeasurable) Institution for those suffering from mental disorders (historical term).
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A·sy'lum noun ;
plural English
Asylums Latin
Asyla [ Latin
asylum , Greek ..., from ... 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...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-sī′lŭm Definitions: 1. Older term for an institution for the housing and care of those who by reason of age or of mental or bodily infirmities are unable to care for themselves.
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Asylum was a sanctuary or place of refuge, where criminals and debtors sheltered themselves from justice, and from which they could not be taken without sacrilege. Temples were anciently asylums, as were Christian churches in later times. The term in the 19th century was usually applied to an institution for receiving, maintaining, and, so far as p...
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asylum 1. Protection and immunity from extradition granted by a government to somebody who has fled another country, e.g. because of political oppression. 2. A shelter and protection from danger, or imminent harm, provided by a sheltered place. 3. Currently an offensive term for an institution for people with psychiatric disorders or for mentally...
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(esp. formerly) an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill, orphans, or other persons requiring specialized assistance. · an inviolable refuge, as formerly for criminals and debtors; sanctuary: He sought asylum in the church. · · a refuge granted an alien by a sovereign state on its own territory. · a temp...
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a shelter from danger or hardship
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a shelter from danger or hardship
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