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sanity|ˈsænɪtɪ|
Also 5 sanite, 6–7 sanitie.
[a. F. sanité, ad. L. sānitās, f. sān-us healthy: see sane a. and -ity.]
1. Healthy condition, health. arch.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 333 The flesche of that cuntre inducethe sanite to men of that londe. 1586B. Young Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iv. 192 For safetie and sanitie of his stomacke. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. 230 Therapeuticke or curative Physicke, we tearm that which restoreth the Patient unto sanity. 1744Armstrong Art Preserv. Health ii. 94 Each extreme From the blest mean of sanity departs. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 16 Jan. an. 1776, His heart, liver, entrails, and nutriment in each state, bear every mark of perfect sanity. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. vii. i, Slow regular growth, though this also ends in death, is what we name health and sanity. 1885Pater Marius I. 33 Salus—salvation—for the Romans, had come to mean bodily sanity.
fig.1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §1 Whether thou hast yet entred the narrow Gate, got up the Hill and asperous way, which leadeth unto the House of Sanity. 1829Southey Sir T. More (1831) II. 156 A restoration of national sanity and strength.
†b. Wholesomeness. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 907 They had Tabacco in religious estimation, not onely for sanity but for sanctity also. 1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 176 A raging wind clears the country of all the Flies and Fleas it meets with, and restores sanity to the air.
2. The condition of being sane; soundness of mind; mental health.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 214 A happinesse, That often Madnesse hits on, Which Reason and Sanitie could not So prosperously be deliuer'd of. 1746Francis Horace, Sat. i. v. 59 Is there a Blessing, in the Power of Fate, To be compar'd, in Sanity of Mind, To Friends of such companionable Kind? 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 193 The same sanity of mind will the true patriot display. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Comic Wks. (Bohn) III. 206 The perception of the comic is..a pledge of sanity. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life xii. ii. (1875) 442 Much of the sanity of his [Goethe's] genius may have been due to his residence in so tranquil a place as Weimar. 1902Edin. Rev. Apr. 512 The sense of limit belongs to sanity, and is natural to normally constituted minds.
†3. Soundness (of material). Obs. rare.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 58 Want of sanity in the materials can never be supplied by any art in the building.
†4. Comb., sanity-institution, a hospital. Obs.
1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. II. 177 From this brief account of the medical college..we will proceed to describe the sanity-institutions connected with it. |