单词 | thanatorium |
释义 | thanatoriumn. An establishment where people are received in order to be killed. ΚΠ 1970 Times 1 May 11/4 We should need public thanatoria, just as we have public crematoria and abattoirs. 1970 New Scientist 24 Sept. 626/2 The Thanatoria, the most negative of all the departments. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 166/1 The violent jerks from excess to excess of the patients at Dr Sacks's pseudonymous New York hospital—‘not a sanatorium but a thanatorium’, as one of the inmates remarked. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1970 |
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