sanitarium

English

Etymology

Blend of sanitary +‎ sanatorium. Coined by John Harvey Kellogg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsæn.ɪˈtɛəɹ.i.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sanitarium (plural sanitariums or sanitaria)

1. (US) Alternative form of sanatorium.
   • 1908 February 19, Jack London, “The Bishop”, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 188:

     [H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   • 1954 February 15, Henry E. Michelson, “The Syndrome of Lupus Erythematosus”, in Modern Medicine, volume 22, number 4, Minneapolis, Minn.: Modern Medicine Publications, Inc., page 98:

     Treatment in tuberculosis sanitariums at the expense of the public might be warranted.

Anagrams

• Mauritians, trainasium