empyrean
noun
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Pronunciation: /ɛmˌpaɪˈɹiːn̩/ / /ɛmˈpɪɹi.ən/
adj
Etymology: From Latin empȳreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios), from ἐν (en, “in”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (whence English pyre).
- Of the sky or the heavens, and particularly relating to the highest celestial sphere in premodern cosmology; celestially refined.
“In th' Empyrean Heaven, (the bleſs'd Abode) / The Thrones and the Dominions proſtrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God: / And an huſh'd ſilence damps the tuneful sky.”
“Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies; Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin empȳreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios), from ἐν (en, “in”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (whence English pyre).
- The highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to be a region of pure light and fire or else composed of ether, and sometimes seen as the dwelling-place of God or other divine beings; the highest celestial sphere according to ancient and medieval astronomy.
“So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, With Halleluiahs: […]”
“Perchance they mark Where India's cliffs the trembling cloud invade, Or Andes with his fiery banner flouts The empyrean,...”