empyreal

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  1. adjective Empyrean.
  2. adjective Of the sky; celestial.
  3. adjective Elevated; sublime.

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  • Solo Albums #4 And don't forget that empyreal BSS horn section which is once again present on this album. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Now amazed she views The empyreal waste, [Endnote B] where happy spirits hold Beyond this concave heaven, their calm abode And fields of radiance, whose unfading light [Endnote C Has travell'd the profound six thousand years Nor yet arrives in sight of mortal things Even on the barriers of the world untired She meditates the eternal depth below 208 Till, half recoiling, down the headlong steep She plunges; soon o'erwhelm'd and swallow'd up In that immense of being. —  Poetical Works of Akenside
  • "The 'Arsh, throne of God or the empyreal heaven and the tree Tϊbα[FN#439] and Adam and the garden of Eden; these Allah created with the hand of His omnipotence; but to all other created things He said, 'Be,'--and they were." —  Arabian nights. English
  • As are the elements, such are the heavens Even from the moon unto th' empyreal orb Mutually folded in each other's spheres And jointly move upon one axletree Whose termine [75] is term'd the world's wide pole Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter Feign'd, but are erring [76] stars FAUSTUS. —  The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616
  • Plunge in this empyreal vast. —  The Christian Year
 

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  1. Middle English emperiall, from Medieval Latin empyreus, from Late Latin empyrius, fiery, from Greek empurios : en-, in; see en-2 + pūr, fire; see paəwr̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also emperiall (simulating imperial); = French empyréal, from Middle Latin *empyræus (as if from Greek *ἐμπυραῑος, a false form), Late Latin empyrĭus or empyrĕus, fiery, from LGr. ἒμπυ\ριος, for Greek ἒμπυρος, in, on, or by the fire, fiery, torrid, from ἐν, in, + πῡρ = English fire: see pyre, fire.
 

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