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thanatorium nonce-wd.|θænəˈtɔərɪəm|
Pl. -oria.
[Alteration of sanatorium, after thanato-.]
An establishment where people are received in order to be killed.
1970Times 1 May 11/4 We should need public thanatoria, just as we have public crematoria and abattoirs. 1970New Scientist 24 Sept. 626/2 The Thanatoria, the most negative of all the departments. 1976Times 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. |
