empyreal

From Latin empyreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios, “fiery”), from ἐν (en, “en-”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (English pyre).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛmˈpɪɹɪəl/, /ɛmpɪˈɹiː.əl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛmˈpɪɹ.i.əl/

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empyreal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean

   Synonyms: celestial, sublime, exalted

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

     The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne,
     That cauſd the eldeſt ſonne of heauenly Ops,
     To thruſt his doting father from his chaire,
     And place himſelfe in the Emperiall heauen,
     Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.

2. Of the sky or heavens.
3. Fiery, made of pure fire.

• (pertaining to the highest heaven): celestial, empyrean, exalted.
• (made of pure fire): fiery

• empyrical

• “empyreal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.