About The Word Limbo
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Limbo
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What's The Definition Of Limbo?
[n] (theology) the abode of infants who die before baptism
[n] an imaginary place for lost or neglected things [n] the state of being disregarded or forgotten Synonyms | Synonyms for Limbo: oblivion Related Terms | Find terms related to Limbo: Abaddon | avichi | cage | coop | enclosure | Gehenna | Hades | hell | in abeyance | infernal regions | inferno | jahannan | lower world | Naraka | nether world | on the shelf | Pandemonium | pen | penfold | perdition | pinfold | place of confinement | place of torment | pound | purgatory | shades below | Sheol | suspended | the abyss | the bottomless pit | the grave | the pit | Tophet | treading water | underworld See Also | imaginary place | obscurity Limbo In Webster's Dictionary \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.
3. (Anat.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.
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