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Elysium|ɪˈlɪzɪəm, -ʒɪəm|
Forms: 7–8 elizeum, -ium, elyzium, 8 elisium, 6– elysium.
[a. L. ēlysium, ad. Gr. Ἠλύσιον (πεδίον) the abode of the blessed.]
1. The supposed state or abode of the blessed after death in Greek mythology.
1599Broughton Lett. xiii. 44 Two passages one leading into Elysium, the other into Tartarus. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 29 There is more in that Elizium of the Poets then a meere flowrish. 1702Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. iv. ii. 1845 That Lethe and Elisium Which Priests and Poets tell. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 321 The enjoyments of Elysium and punishments of Tartarus.
2. transf. Any similarly-conceived abode or state of the departed.
1603H. Petowe in Farr S.P. Jas. I, 105 Shee's hence, For sweet Eliza in Elizium lives. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 472 Thee who to enjoy Plato's Elysium, leap'd into the Sea. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 511 The departed spirit is ten days in its passage to their happy elysium. 1847Lytton Lucretia (1853) 220 The son of the East [placed]..his elysium by cooling streams.
3. fig. A place or state of ideal or perfect happiness.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 291 The wretched Slaue all Night sleepes in Elizium. 1640T. Carew Poems Wks. (1824) 60 Flye with me to love's Elizium. 1702Rowe Tamerl. iv. i. 1831 Injur'd Lovers find Elizium there. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 179 Holidays..the Elysium of our boyhood, perhaps the only one of our life.
†4. attrib. Obs.
1616Pasquil & Kath. iii. 278 Why do'st thou forsake Elizeum pleasures. c1685Roxb. Ball. (1886) VI. 223 To th' Elizium Shades I post. c1740Mrs. Pendarves Autobiog. I. 12, I..thought the poet's description of the Elysium fields nothing to the delights of those entertainments. |