Definition of Limbos
Limbus or Limbo, according to Catholic theologians a region on
the confines of Hades tenanted, the limbus patrum, by the souls of good
men who died before Christ's advent, and the limbus infantium, by the
souls of unbaptized infants, both of whom await there the resurrection
morn to join the ransomed in heaven.
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{ 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)
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