empyrean

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,...

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.