Definition of Elisium

Definition of Elisium

Elysium the abode of the shades of the virtuous dead in the nether world as conceived of by the poets of Greece and Rome, where the inhabitants live a life of passive blessedness, which, however, is to such a man as Achilles a place of woe rather and unrest, where he would fain exchange places with the meanest hind that breathes in the upper world.

- Wikipedia

E*ly"sium (?), n.; pl. E. Elysiums (#), L. Elysia (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;, &?; &?;, Elysian field.] (Anc. Myth.) 1. A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.

2. Hence, any delightful place.

An Elysian more pure and bright than that pf the Greeks.

I. Taylor.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients
foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This
ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth
by the early Christians -- may their souls be happy in Heaven!

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

(Classical mythology) the home of the blessed after death
a place or state of ideal happiness; paradise
a region in the northern hemisphere of Mars
blissful; euphoric
of or pretaining to Elysium

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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