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Empyreal


EMPYR'EAL, adjective [Latin empyroeus; from Gr. fire.]

1. Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.

Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere.

2. Pure; vital; dephlogisticated; an epithet given to the air, or rather gas, now called oxygen.