empyreal
[ em-pir-ee-uhl, -pahy-ree-, em-puh-ree-uhl, -pahy- ]
adjective
pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients.
pertaining to the sky; celestial: empyreal blue.
formed of pure fire or light: empyreal radiance.
Origin of empyreal
1- Also empyrean.
Words Nearby empyreal
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How to use empyreal in a sentence
Khirad, Intelligence or the first Intelligence, was supposed to be the guardian of the empyreal heaven (Erskine).
The Bbur-nma in English | Babur, Emperor of HindustanIt despised the rock, the tree, the vital air itself, aspiring to breathe empyreal air.
Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) | John RuskinAt Acropolis, near Athens, Minerva's statue formerly fell from the empyreal heaven.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. | Francois RabelaisThis latter had in the upper part of it the empyreal, or heaven of pure light.
Astronomical Myths | John F. BlakeThe first was the empyreal heaven, which was the most remote.
Astronomical Myths | John F. Blake
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