empyreal
Americanadjective
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pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients.
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pertaining to the sky; celestial.
empyreal blue.
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formed of pure fire or light.
empyreal radiance.
Etymology
Origin of empyreal
1475–85; < Late Latin empyre ( us ), variant of empyrius (< Greek empýrios fiery, equivalent to em- em- 2 + pŷr fire + -ios adj. suffix) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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She has conjured up the Pharaonic funk and empyreal jazz of George Clinton and Sun Ra.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2023
For those with merely several hundred dollars to spend creating ice, a small unit from G.E. presents its cache of frozen water as an empyreal glowing mosaic.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021
Almost all of his employees had gone home for the evening, and the room glowed its serene empyreal blue and white against the rush-hour traffic outside.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
Safire published a second edition so quickly because of the bounteous contributions of President Nixon and that empyreal employer of epigram, Spiro Agnew.
From Time Magazine Archive
I marvel why the poets, who, of all men, methinks, should possess the hottest livers, and most empyreal fancies, should affect to see such virtues in cold water.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles
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