empyrean

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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 medieval astronomy.

   “So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, With Halleluiahs: […]”

2. sıfat 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.”