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empyreal

[ em-pir-ee-uhl, -pahy-ree-, em-puh-ree-uhl, -pahy- ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients.
  2. pertaining to the sky; celestial:

    empyreal blue.

  3. formed of pure fire or light:

    empyreal radiance.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of empyreal1

1475–85; < Late Latin empyre ( us ), variant of empyrius (< Greek 𳾱ýDz fiery, equivalent to em- em- 2 + ŷ fire + -ios adj. suffix) + -al 1
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She has conjured up the Pharaonic funk and empyreal jazz of George Clinton and Sun Ra.

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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.

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Golf Digest captured Three Ponds Farm in all its glory with this empyreal video.

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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.

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Ms. Fairstein’s food credentials are more than impeccable; they are empyreal.

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