Angelic vs Empyrean - What's the difference?
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Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
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
* 1667 , , Annus Mirabilis
* 1700 , , Carmen Saeculare
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Angelic is a related term of empyrean.
As adjectives the difference between angelic and empyrean
is that angelic is angelic while empyrean is of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined.As a noun 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.angelic
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Alternative forms
* angelick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- an angelic ester
Synonyms
* angelical, angellike, angelly, heavenly, divineDerived terms
* angelicnessAnagrams
*empyrean
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(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.