• Elysian

    Origin

    The Anglicization of Latin Elysium.

    Full definition of Elysian

    Proper noun

    Elysian

    (plural Elysians)
    1. (Classical mythology) Elysium; home of the blessed, after death.

    Adjective

    Elysian

    1. Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.
    2. (idiomatic) Happy, blissful, heavenly.
      • 1913. Charles George Herbermann, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work..., Encyclopedia Press, page 573:Unlike Raphael's "Galatea" and his "Three Graces", examples of Elysian happiness in a race in the state of innocence, Guilano's decorations resemble saturnalia of lubricity itself.

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