Empyreal

In this remarkable book he tells of his discovery of oxygen -- "empyreal" or "fire-air," as he calls it -- which he seems to have made independently and without ever having heard of the previous discovery by Priestley. ❋ Unknown (1904)

"empyreal" gas was, he supposed (very much as Wilson had done), generated in the body of the sun, and rising everywhere by reason of its lightness, made for itself, when in moderate quantities, small openings or "pores," [141] abundantly visible as dark points on the solar disc. ❋ Unknown (1874)

•The business of empyreal colonialism that exploits people ❋ Unknown (2008)

And then it was gone: giant, empyreal prisoner, and the light that had framed them, leaving behind only the veldt and the scandalized night. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

With a soft, empyreal hiss, it saw itself sucked up by the thorns, until only a last wisp of noxious vapor remained to show where it had once writhed. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1999)

Spirits in the form of angels or demons, good or bad — souls with spiritual bodies — inhabited the empyreal heavens, planets, or elements. ❋ GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY (1968)

Within and through this empyreal web of light marvellous scenes were simultaneously woven. ❋ T. Everett Harr�� (N/A)

Heavens and breathed empyreal air, her tempering; in like manner he requests her to lead him down to his native element lest he should meet with a fate similar to what befell Bellerophon. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

Henceforth he is to fight his way through the storms of life and passion -- to pass onward and upward and at last to rise to 'higher spheres'; and amidst the fierce and insidious assaults of flesh and devil we shall see that he looks for strength and guidance to this Spirit that appeared to him in the blinding vision of living empyreal flame. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

And mount on Milton's wing, and breathe empyreal air! ❋ Thomas Gent (N/A)

They say the empyreal heavens, in which our Lord dwells, do not revolve with the rest: so the accustomed movements of the faculties and imagination do not appear to take place in any way that can injure the soul or disturb its peace. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Priestly had called this absorbed substance or gas dephlogisticated air; Scheele called it empyreal air; Lavoisier ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

As Heaven’s great year brings forth, the empyreal host ❋ Unknown (1909)

Nine: the seven planets, the firmament, and the empyreal heaven. ❋ Unknown (1909)

These correspond to the material, the etherial, and the empyreal worlds of Greek philosophy, and to the physical, astral, and mental planes of modern ❋ Claude Fayette Bragdon (1906)

Th 'ethereal sphere they entered in, and through th' empyreal mansions soar'd. ❋ Kate Milner Rabb (1901)

For her the amaranth of the empyreal Heaven is as comfortless as the adamant of ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

The wealth is most profusely displayed in the books treating of Satan and his followers, but it is not absent from Eden nor from the empyreal Heaven, although in the one case the monotony of the situation, and in the other the poet's evident anxiety to authorise his every step from Scripture, prevent the full display of his power. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

So small is the World, compared with the wide extent of the empyreal ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)