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Elysian

[ih-lizh-uh n, ih-lee-zhuh n]
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adjective
  1. of, relating to, or resembling Elysium.
  2. blissful; delightful.
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Origin of Elysian

First recorded in 1570–80; Elysi(um) + -an
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Examples from the Web for elysian

Historical Examples

  • I should like to see Buccellini, however, and have a globule of the Elysian essence.

    The Daltons, Volume I (of II)

    Charles James Lever

  • They went about in a state of Elysian beatitude, these young people.

    An Old Meerschaum

    David Christie Murray

  • His Elysian gardens, thought he, were about to be snatched away.

    The False Chevalier

    William Douw Lighthall

  • Life seemed an elysian dream, from which care and sorrow must be for ever banished.

    Ernest Linwood

    Caroline Lee Hentz

  • It would be a wonder if there are really Elysian fields, and in them shades of people.

    Quo Vadis

    Henryk Sienkiewicz

British Dictionary definitions for elysian

Elysian

adjective
  1. of or relating to Elysium
  2. literary delightful; glorious; blissful
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Word Origin and History for elysian

Elysian

adj.

1570s, from Greek Elysion pedion "Elysian field," where heroes and the virtuous live after death, from a pre-Greek word of unknown origin.

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