How did the Asylums come about? The first recorded Lunatic Asylum in Europe was the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, it has been a part of London since 1247 when it was built as a priory. It became a hospital in 1330 and admitted its first mentally ill patients in 1407.
The definition of enigmatic is something that is like a puzzle or riddle that canât be understood. An example of enigmatic is the mysterious ending of a complicated movie.
Recent Examples of enigmatic from the Web. 1  The culprit was an enigmatic cousin of the sea squirts: giant pyrosomes. 2  The criminals who do the actual heisting â Baby isnât really one for guns or blood â are a grab bag of addicts and psychopaths, all of whom are baffled by the enigmatic and mostly silent getaway driver.