| 单词 | limbus patrum |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslimbus patrum a. Occasionally used (as the normal form for English adoption) = limbo n.1 1 limbus patrum = ‘the limbo of the fathers’, i.e. of the just who died before Christ's coming. limbus infantum = ‘the limbo of infants’: see limbo n.1 1. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > region bordering limboa1400 limbusc1440 limbc1450 bolge1881 c1440 York Myst. xxxvii. 198 What þanne, is lymbus lorne, allas! 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 514/1 The state of soules, both in heauen, hell, purgatory, paradyse, & Limbus patrum. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 418 b There be sayd to be 4. Mansions in hell... The second Lymbus, a place for such as are not Baptised. a1623 W. Pemble Short Expos. Zachary (1629) 148 He..had ransomed the Fathers out of their Purgatory, or infernall Limbus. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §1000 As if all Spirits and Soules of Men, came forth out of one Divine Limbus. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §264. 194 The Limbus or Physitians purgatory. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1681) I. 121 The Papists..put Children..into a state call'd Limbus Infantum, wherein they do as it were eternally sleep. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 272 By the new French constitution, the best and the wisest representative go equally with the worst into this Limbus Patrum . View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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