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empyrean
/ɛmˌpaɪˈɹiːn̩/
noun 1adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
high
VERB + EMPYREAN
reach, traversing
EMPYREAN + NOUN
ble, expanse, halleluiahs, heaven, silvery, sometime, sphere
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
1
The highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to be a region of pure light and fire or else composed of ether, and sometimes seen as the dwelling-place of God or other divine beings; the highest celestial sphere according to ancient and medi
So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, With Halleluiahs: […]
Perchance they mark Where India's cliffs the trembling cloud invade, Or Andes with his fiery banner flouts The empyrean,...
adj
1
Of the sky or the heavens, and particularly relating to the highest celestial sphere in premodern cosmology; celestially refined.
In th' Empyrean Heaven, (the bleſs'd Abode) / The Thrones and the Dominions proſtrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God: / And an huſh'd ſilence damps the tuneful sky.
Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies; Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.
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So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, With Halleluiahs: […]
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Perchance they mark Where India's cliffs the trembling cloud invade, Or Andes with his fiery banner flouts The empyrean,...
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Milton, a name to resound for ages; / Whose titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel, / Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries, / Tower, the deep-domed empyrëan / Rings to the roar of an angel onset— […]
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In th' Empyrean Heaven, (the bleſs'd Abode) / The Thrones and the Dominions proſtrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God: / And an huſh'd ſilence damps the tuneful sky.
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Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies; Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.
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Lispings empyrean will I sometime teach / Thine honied tongue— […]
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