Definitions for empyreal

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empyreal em·pyr·e·al

Spelling: [em-pir-ee-uh l, -pahy-ree-, em-puh- Empyreal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in empyreal (aeelmpry).

Definitions for empyreal

adjective

1. pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients.
2. pertaining to the sky; celestial:
3. formed of pure fire or light:

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)

Examples for empyreal

At Acropolis, near Athens, Minerva's statue formerly fell from the empyreal heaven.

Khirad, Intelligence or the first Intelligence, was supposed to be the guardian of the empyreal heaven (Erskine).

For her the amaranth of the empyreal Heaven is as comfortless as the adamant of Hell.

This latter had in the upper part of it the empyreal, or heaven of pure light.

So small is the World, compared with the wide extent of the empyreal Heaven.

The first was the empyreal heaven, which was the most remote.

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