Limbus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.

II. Limbus ·noun An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.

III. Limbus ·noun Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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