sanatorium (sanatorium)

[NL., also, erroneously, sanatarium (also sanitarium, with ref. to L. san it as, health); neut. of LL. san at or i us, giving health: see sanatory.] 1. A place to which people go for the sake of health; a locality to which people resort to regain health; also, a house, hotel, or medical institution in such a locality, designed locality, design specifically applied to military stations on the mountains or tablelands of tropical countries, with climates suited to the health of Euro designed to accommodate invalids: peans. Simla, a British sanatorium in the northwest of India. Chambers's Encyc. 2. A hospital, usually a private hospital for the treatment of patients who are not beyond the hope of cure. IMG:content-0067.png:[blocks in formation] sanctified (sangk'ti-fid), p. a. [ He finds no character so sanctified that has not its failings. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, lxvii. ment by hanging, flogging, or burning alive. Some writers describe it as a hat, others as a sort of ca ock or loose overgarment, and it is generally a erted to have been decorated with red flames or grotesque figures either painted or applied in thin material. There are few who have fallen into the Gripes of the Inquisition do scape the Rack, or the San - beni to , which is a strait yellow Coat without Sleeves, having the Pour trait of the Devil painted up and down in black. Howell , Letters, I. v. 42. What you tell us of knights-errant is all invention and lies; and, if their histories must not be burnt, at least they deserve to wear each of them a Sanbenito, or some badge whereby they may be known to be infamous. Jarvis, tr. of Don Quixote, II. vi.