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Webster 1913 Edition
Limbus
{
Lim′bo
(lĭm′bō̍)
, Lim′bus
(lĭm′bŭs)
, } Noun.
1.
(Scholastic Theol.)
An spiritual region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the last judgment.
As far from help as
Limbo
is from bliss. Shakespeare
A
The Paradise of fools.
Limbo
large and broad, since calledThe Paradise of fools.
Milton.
☞ 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
4.
(Anat.)
A border or margin;
as, the
. limbus
of the cornea