Middle English Dictionary Entry
limbus n.
Entry Info
| Forms | limbus n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
= limbo.
Associated quotations
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)384/198 : What þanne, is lymbus lorne, allas!
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget(3) (Gar 145)48/2 : The derkenes that appered abowte the fornace ar called limbus, & it comyth of the derkenes that ar ine the fornes, and yett they ar both one place and one hell.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)4/8 : Fro the tyme of the preuaricacion of Adam vnto the aduent of his and oure saueoure, alle man-kynd was ilost, and all that dyed descendid vnto helle, were they good, were they euel. Neuertheles the goode men yede to the ouer place of helle i-clepyd Limbus and the euel vnto depenes.