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单词 sanity
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sanityn.

/ˈsanɪti/
Forms: Also Middle English sanite, 1500s–1600s sanitie.
Etymology: < French sanité, < Latin sānitās , < sānus healthy: see sane adj. and -ity suffix.
1.
a. Healthy condition, health. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health
healOE
healthc1000
strengthOE
soundc1275
hailc1300
halec1330
quartc1330
liege poustie1340
plight1394
soundness1398
sanity?a1475
quartfulness1483
healthfulness?1535
symmetry?1541
flesh1548
good liking?1560
well-being1561
valetude1575
safeness1576
kilter1582
mens sana in corpore sanoc1605
eucrasy1607
sanitude1652
salubrity1654
wellness1654
healthiness1670
vegeteness1678
wholesome1738
haleness1815
able-bodiedness1857
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 333 The flesche of that cuntre inducethe sanite to men of that londe.
1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 192 For safetie and sanitie of his stomacke.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xiii. 230 Therapeuticke or curative Physicke, we tearm that which restoreth the Patient unto sanity . View more context for this quotation
1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 30 Each extreme From the blest mean of sanity departs.
1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 16 Jan. (1778) His heart, liver, entrails, and nutriment in each state, bear every mark of perfect sanity.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. i. 335 Slow regular growth, though this also ends in death, is what we name health and sanity.
1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean I. 33 Salus—salvation—for the Romans, had come to mean bodily sanity.
figurative.a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 1 Whether thou hast yet entred the narrow Gate, got up the Hill and asperous way, which leadeth unto the House of Sanity.1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 156 A restoration of national sanity and strength.
b. Wholesomeness. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to
wholesomenessa1200
salubrity?a1475
halesomeness1483
healthfulness?1535
healthsomeness1548
sanity1613
sanitude1652
healthiness1670
salubriousness1677
salutariness1727
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 907 They had Tabacco in religious estimation, not onely for sanity but for sanctity also.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-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.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > [noun]
healthc1000
in witc1000
i-mindOE
mindc1380
reasonc1405
wit-state?c1450
common sense1536
sense1536
senses1540
soundness1548
sanitya1616
wisdoma1616
mental health?1650
saneness1727
mens sana1853
balance1856
lucidity1874
clear-headedness1882
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 212 A happinesse, That often Madnesse hits on, Which Reason and Sanitie [1604 sanctity] could not So prosperously be deliuer'd of.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires 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?
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 193 The same sanity of mind will the true patriot display.
1854 R. W. Emerson Comic in Wks. (1906) III. 206 The perception of the comic is..a pledge of sanity.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) xii. ii. 442 Much of the sanity of his [Goethe's] genius may have been due to his residence in so tranquil a place as Weimar.
1902 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 512 The sense of limit belongs to sanity, and is natural to normally constituted minds.
3. Soundness (of material). Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [adjective] > soundness of material
sanity1769
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 156 Want of sanity in the materials, can never be supplied by any art in the building.

Compounds

sanity-institution n. Obsolete a hospital.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary
maison dieu1354
fermery1377
leech-house1483
sick-house1491
hospital1549
infirmitorya1552
guest house1600
infirmatory1603
valetudinary1623
infirmary1625
nosocome1653
hôtel-Dieuc1660
hothouse1707
sanity-institution1799
butcher's shop1890
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 177 From this brief account of the medical college..we will proceed to describe the sanity-institutions connected with it.
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