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Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /ɛmˌpaɪˈɹiːn̩/
    • IPA: /ɛmˈpɪɹi.ən/
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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (historical) 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.

Adjektiivi

  1. Of the sky or the heavens, and particularly relating to the highest celestial sphere in premodern cosmology; celestially refined.

Esimerkit

  • So sung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs:
  • the deep-domed empyrean / Rings to the roar of an angel onset
  • The very empyrean seemed to be a secret.
  • In th’empyrean heaven, the bless’d abode, / The Thrones and the Dominions prostrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God.
  • Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies; / Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.
  • Lispings empyrean will ii sometimes teach / Thine honeyed tongue.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkoempyreans

Of the sky or the heavens, and particularly relating to the highest celestial sphere in premodern cosmology; celestially refined.

The Divine Comedy's Empyrean, illustrated by Gustave Doré