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empyrean

/ɛmˌpaɪˈɹiːn̩/

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What does empyrean mean?

adjective

  1. Of the sky or the heavens, and particularly relating to the highest celestial sphere in premodern cosmology; celestially refined.
  2. French: empyréen (fr)
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noun

  1. (historical) 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.

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/ɛmˌpaɪˈɹiːn̩/

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/ɛmˈpɪɹi.ən/

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And thus to empyrean height Of ev'ry kind of lore, In search of wisdom's pure delight, Ambitiously we soar.
Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) GilbertThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanProject Gutenberg ebook #808
The ninth was the primum mobile, and inclosing all was the tenth heaven--the Empyrean.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
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"The deep-domed empyrean Rings to the roar of an angel onset."
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays by Ralph Waldo EmersonProject Gutenberg ebook #16643
His thoughts floated then serenely in the empyrean, and he felt towards her the horror that perhaps the painted butterfly, hovering about the flowers, feels to the filthy chrysalis from which it has triumphantly emerged.
W. Somerset (William Somerset) MaughamThe Moon and SixpenceProject Gutenberg ebook #222
Like all religious thinkers, he carries with his scholar's equipment a pair of metaphysical wings, wherewith at any moment he may soar into the empyrean, out of reach of vulgar materialists, like you and me.
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558