Definition of Libo
{ Lim"bo (l&ibreve;m"b&osl;), Lim"bus (-
bŭs), } 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.
&fist; 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
LIMBO. A prison, confinement.
To LINE. A term for the act of coition between dog and
bitch.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- (in Roman Catholic theology) the place where unbaptized but innocent souls exist temporarily
- (by extension) any in-between state or condition resulting in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock
My application has been in stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.
- a game played by taking turns crossing under a horizontal bar or stick. The stick is lowered with each round, and the game is won by the player who passes under the bar in the lowest position.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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