Definition of Empirean
Empyrean, the highest heaven, or region of pure elemental fire,
whence everything of the nature of fire has been conceived to emanate,
whether in the phenomena of nature or the life of man.
- Wikipedia
Em`py*re"an (?; 277), n. [See
Empyreal.] The highest heaven, where the pure element of
fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.
The empyrean rung
With hallelujahs. Milton.
Em`py*re"an, a. Empyreal.
Akenside.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- 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
- (RQ:Milton Lost 1674, 7) - So sung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs:
- 1863: Alfred Tennyson, Experiments in Quantity - the deep-domed empyrean / Rings to the roar of an angel onset
- (RQ:Chesterton Thursday 1) - The very empyrean seemed to be a secret.
- empyreal; of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined
- 1667: John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis - In thempyrean heaven, the bless'd abode, / The Thrones and the Dominions prostrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God.
- 1700: Matthew Prior, Carmen Saeculare - Yet upward she incessant flies; / Resolv'd to reach the high empyrean Sphere.
- 1818: John Keats, Endymion - Lispings empyrean will ii sometimes teach / Thine honeyed tongue.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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