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empyreal

[ em-pir-ee-uhl, -pahy-ree-, em-puh-ree-uhl, -pahy- ]

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adjective

pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients.
pertaining to the sky; celestial:
empyreal blue.
formed of pure fire or light:
empyreal radiance.

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Word History and Origins

1475–85; < Late Latin empyre ( us ), variant of empyrius (< Greek empýrios fiery, equivalent to em- em- ² + pŷr fire + -ios adj. suffix) + -al ¹

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Example Sentences

Khirad, Intelligence or the first Intelligence, was supposed to be the guardian of the empyreal heaven (Erskine).

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It despised the rock, the tree, the vital air itself, aspiring to breathe empyreal air.

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At Acropolis, near Athens, Minerva's statue formerly fell from the empyreal heaven.

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This latter had in the upper part of it the empyreal, or heaven of pure light.

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The first was the empyreal heaven, which was the most remote.

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