empyrean

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 medieval astronomy. historical
    — So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, With Halleluiahs: […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Of the sky or the heavens, and particularly relating to the highest celestial sphere in premodern cosmology; celestially refined. not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

empyreans plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin empȳreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios), from ἐν (en, “in”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (whence English pyre).
词源 2
From Latin empȳreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios), from ἐν (en, “in”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (whence English pyre).
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