empyreal

[ em-pir-ee-uh l, -pahy-ree-, em-puh-ree-uh l, -pahy- ]

/ ɛmˈpɪr i əl, -ˈpaɪ ri-, ˌɛm pəˈri əl, -paɪ- /

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.

Also empyrean.

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) + -al¹

Mr Priestley gave it the name of dephlogisticated air, Mr Scheele called it empyreal air.

Elements of Chemistry, |Antoine Lavoisier
So small is the World, compared with the wide extent of the empyreal Heaven.

Milton |Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
At Acropolis, near Athens, Minerva's statue formerly fell from the empyreal heaven.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. |Francois Rabelais
The first was the empyreal heaven, which was the most remote.

Astronomical Myths |John F. Blake

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 Hindustan