lim·bus /ˈlɪmbəs/
異色邊緣,異組織邊緣
lim·bus /ˈlɪmbəs/ 名詞
緣(動)
Lim·bo Lim·bus n.
1. Scholastic Theol. An spiritual region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the last judgment.
As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. --Shak.
A Limbo large and broad, since called
The Paradise of fools. --Milton.
Note: ☞ 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.
4. Anat. A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.
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limbus
n : a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished
by color or structure
[also: limbi (pl)]