empyrosis
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek in + to burn.
Noun
editempyrosis (plural empyroses)
- (obsolete) A general fire; a conflagration.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- the former Opinion that held these Cataclysms and Empyroses universal
References
edit“empyrosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.