LIMBUS
\lˈɪmbəs], \lˈɪmbəs], \l_ˈɪ_m_b_ə_s]\
Definitions of LIMBUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
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A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.
By Oddity Software
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An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
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A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.
By Noah Webster.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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In the Rom. Cath. theology, a place of waiting in the world beyond for the souls of such as, though not disqualified, are not properly qualified for Heaven; Ariosto makes it the place of all lost things; Milton the paradise of fools; and Shakespeare, hell itself; a place of restraint.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
