Aether vs Empyrean - What's the difference?
aether | empyrean |
The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy.
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* 1863 , , Experiments in Quantity
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of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined
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* 1700 , , Carmen Saeculare
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As nouns the difference between aether and empyrean
is that aether is an alternative spelling of lang=en while empyrean is the region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy.As a proper noun Aether
is one of the Greek primordial deities, who was the personification of the upper air of the gods. His parents of Erebus and Nyx, and his sister-wife is Hemera/Dies.As an adjective empyrean is
of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined.empyrean
English
(wikipedia empyrean)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Adjective
(-)- 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.