empyreal

• “In this remarkable book he tells of his discovery of oxygen -- "empyreal" or "fire-air," as he calls it -- which he seems to have made independently and without ever having heard of the previous discovery by Priestley.”

  A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences

• “empyreal" gas was, he supposed (very much as Wilson had done), generated in the body of the sun, and rising everywhere by reason of its lightness, made for itself, when in moderate quantities, small openings or "pores," [141] abundantly visible as dark points on the solar disc.”

  A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition

• “•The business of empyreal colonialism that exploits people”

  Heart of Darkness And America's Gloomy History

• “And then it was gone: giant, empyreal prisoner, and the light that had framed them, leaving behind only the veldt and the scandalized night.”

  Carnivores of Light and Darkness

• “With a soft, empyreal hiss, it saw itself sucked up by the thorns, until only a last wisp of noxious vapor remained to show where it had once writhed.”

  Into the Thinking Kingdoms

• “Spirits in the form of angels or demons, good or bad — souls with spiritual bodies — inhabited the empyreal heavens, planets, or elements.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Within and through this empyreal web of light marvellous scenes were simultaneously woven.”

  The Eternal Maiden

• “Heavens and breathed empyreal air, her tempering; in like manner he requests her to lead him down to his native element lest he should meet with a fate similar to what befell Bellerophon.”

  The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

• “Henceforth he is to fight his way through the storms of life and passion -- to pass onward and upward and at last to rise to 'higher spheres'; and amidst the fierce and insidious assaults of flesh and devil we shall see that he looks for strength and guidance to this Spirit that appeared to him in the blinding vision of living empyreal flame.”

  The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

• “And mount on Milton's wing, and breathe empyreal air!”

  Poems (1828)

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