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Etymology[edit]

From Latinempȳreus, from Ancient Greekἐμπύριος(empúrios), from ἐν(en, “in”) + πῦρ(pûr, “fire”) (whence English pyre).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˌpaɪˈɹiːn̩/, /ɛmˈpɪɹi.ən/

Noun[edit]

empyrean (pluralempyreans)

What does empyrean mean? Dead island bloodbath arena full guide how to start free. Empyrean is defined by the lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries as Relating to heaven or the sky.

1. (historical) The region of purelight and fire; the highestheaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancientastronomy.
   • 1674, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, 2nd revised and augmented edition, London: Printed by S[amuel] Simmons[…], , page 192:

     So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: [..]

   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “[Experiments] In Quantity”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co.,[…], , page 174:

     Milton, a name to resound for ages; / Whose titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel, / Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries, / Tower, the deep-domed empyrëan / Rings to the roar of an angel onset— [..]

   • 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Two Poets of Saffron Park”, in The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith,[…]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, , page 13:

     This particular evening, if it remembered for nothing else, will be remembered in that place for its strange sunset. [..] The whole was so close about the earth, as if to express nothing but a violent secrecy. The very empyrean seemed to be a secret.

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Adjective[edit]

empyrean (not comparable)

1. Of the sky or the heavens; celestiallyrefined.
   • 1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI.[…], London: Printed for Henry Herringman,[…], , stanza 270, page 71:

     In th' Empyrean Heaven, (the bleſs'd Abode) / The Thrones and the Dominions proſtrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God: [..]

   • 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Saeculare

     Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies; / Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.

   • 1818, John Keats, “Book II”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: Printed [by T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey,[…], , lines 821–822, page 91:

     Lispings empyrean will I sometime teach / Thine honied tongue— [..]

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References[edit]

• empyrean in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914

Further reading[edit]

• empyrean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia