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adj. - Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods.

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Usage examples (37)
  • Mr. Mason, in his English Garden, thus panegyrises his elysian scenes: --
  • Her soul was already up there, and its elysian paths knew the lightness of her feet.
  • Many critics refer to the movies of the 1930s and 1940s as part of an elysian period of well-written works.
  • The happy hunting grounds are merely a repetition of his present life, only in those blissful elysian fields a
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