empyreal
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin empyreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios, “fiery”), from ἐν (en, “en-”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (English pyre).
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editempyreal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
- The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne,
That cauſd the eldeſt ſonne of heauenly Ops,
To thruſt his doting father from his chaire,
And place himſelfe in the Emperiall heauen,
Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
- 1674, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 6:
- This downfall ; ſince by Fate the ſtrength of Gods
And this Empyreal ſubſtance cannot fail,
Since through experience of this great event
In Arms not worſe, in foreſight much advanc't,
We may with more ſucceſsſul hope reſolve
To wage by force or guile eternal Warr […]
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editmade of pure fire
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editReferences
edit- “empyreal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.