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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ih-lizh-uh n, ih-lee-zhuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlɪʒ ən, ɪˈli ʒən |
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Définition of elysian
Origin :- 1570s, from Greek Elysion pedion "Elysian field," where heroes and the virtuous live after death, from a pre-Greek word of unknown origin.
- As in celestial : adj heavenly
- I should like to see Buccellini, however, and have a globule of the Elysian essence.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- They went about in a state of Elysian beatitude, these young people.
- Extract from : « An Old Meerschaum » by David Christie Murray
- His Elysian gardens, thought he, were about to be snatched away.
- Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall
- Life seemed an elysian dream, from which care and sorrow must be for ever banished.
- Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
- It would be a wonder if there are really Elysian fields, and in them shades of people.
- Extract from : « Quo Vadis » by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Have you ever known people in my condition not set out for the Elysian Fields?
- Extract from : « Fathers and Sons » by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Helping us cherish, and nurse as they grow, Elysian plants, from thoughts that we sow.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of John R. Young » by John Young
- He had something to live for then, and the days passed like an Elysian summer.
- Extract from : « The Chief of the Ranges » by H. A. Cody
- Perhaps its maker took the secret with her to the Elysian Fields.
- Extract from : « An Autobiography » by Elizabeth Butler
- He tastes the kiss of Elysian bliss in instant, earthly life.
- Extract from : « Frontier Ballads » by Joseph Mills Hanson
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