Empyrean

Word EMPYREAN
Character 8
Hyphenation em py re an
Pronunciations /ɛmˈpɪɹi.ən/

Definitions and meanings of "Empyrean"

What do we mean by empyrean?

The highest reaches of heaven, believed by the ancients to be a realm of pure fire or light. noun

The abode of God and the angels; paradise. noun

The sky. noun

Of or relating to the empyrean of ancient belief. adjective

Empyreal; celestially refined.

The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy. noun

The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist. noun

Empyreal. adjective

The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy. noun

Of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined adjective

Inspiring awe adjective

The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected noun

Of or relating to the sky or heavens adjective

The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy.

The uppermost layer of visible Heaven. Believed by ancients to be the realm of fire or light. Also considered by ancients to be a paradise among the heavens. Urban Dictionary

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The word "empyrean" in example sentences

The empyrean is the central castle where the emperor (God) sits enthroned. ❋ ARMAND MAURER (1968)

From the ninth sphere to the empyrean, which is mere light. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Supreme power, the beetle that folds his wings, that rests in the empyrean, that is born as his own son. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

From the ninth sphere to the empyrean, which is more light.v. 44. ❋ 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri (1293)

643 One of the halls of the empyrean, which is here personified as a goddess. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

In the afternoon the wind strengthened after four days of calm and the goldens enjoyed it, rising into the empyrean until they seemed to dissolve in blue. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

This is perhaps where most readers depart company with Bloom, concluding that his kind of reading is finally an idiosyncratic and insular one, Bloom himself seated aloft in his own peculiar aesthetic empyrean. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For $3.7 million, you, too, can sit in this singular creation, gaze out at the magnificent sunsets, watch eagles wheel against the bright blue empyrean, pit yourself against the bellowing 74-mile-an-hour winds, the arctic snows, the unforgiving landscape. ❋ Marie Arana (2011)

The building itself, like the bell-ringing ceremonies inside, or indeed the activity on the hallowed floor itself, has been abstracted away from its original purpose and into the metaphysical empyrean of Higher Marketing: as much image as reality. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2011)

It proves to be an unexpectedly profound experience for the man of forty, as Always, until now, [sex] had been too much, bigger than all systems, an empyrean as absolute as those first boyish orgasms, when his hand would make his soul pass through a bliss as dense as an ingot of gold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He came plunging down from the rarefied empyrean of his peak in Darien to walk among us. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2010)

Raven screeches at me from his empyrean atop a trashcan on the gray sidewalk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But as recently as the 1970s, when I was a kid, Gabo's brand of clean-cut, empyrean formalism seemed to be running neck-and-neck with irony and mess, or even beating it. ❋ Blake Gopnik (2010)

London had learned of astral forms and the empyrean at his mother's knee but could never translate such occult esoterica into good fiction. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Another version of this story was "In Yeddo Bay," published in St. Nicholas in February, 1903.) “London had learned of astral forms and the empyrean at his mother's knee ...” ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Shatter] the Empyrean by [Anaal Nathrakh] ❋ Arachide28 (2008)

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