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limbo |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Limbo \Lim"bo\ (l[i^]m"b[-o]), Limbus \Lim"bus\ (-b[u^]s), n. [L. limbus border, edge, in limbo on the border. Cf {Limb} border.] 1. (Scholastic Theol.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment. As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. --Shak. A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools. --Milton. Note: The limbus patrum was considered as a place for the souls of good men who lived before the coming of our Savior. The limbus infantium was said to be a similar place for the souls of unbaptized infants. To these was added, in the popular belief, the limbus fatuorum or fool's paradise, regarded as a receptacle of all vanity and nonsense. 2. Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as to put a man in limbo. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: limbo n 1: the state of being disregarded or forgotten [syn: {oblivion}] 2: an imaginary place for lost or neglected things 3: (theology) the abode of infants who die before baptism
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