Definition of "lunatic asylum" []

• A facility designed where persons with serious mental disorders are housed. (noun)

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• "Resolved, that the superintendent of the penitentiary furnish this house with the amount of labor by the convicts employed on the public square, including other expenses incident thereto: the value of materials furnished, and labor expended in repairs and permanent improvements to the penitentiary buildings: the number of convicts employed in the erection of the lunatic asylum west of the Alleghany mountains, or improving the public grounds attached to said asylum, with a fair valuation of such labor: the number of convicts hired by Napoleon B."
• "Jesus-Mary-Joseph School, and the lunatic asylum at Parangaba."
• "School with catechumenate at Maryabad, with seventy-five children, and a lunatic asylum for females at Lahore."