Elysian vs Empyrean - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.
(idiomatic) Happy, blissful, heavenly.
* 1913. Charles George Herbermann, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work... , Encyclopedia Press, page 573:
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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Elysian is a related term of empyrean.
As adjectives the difference between elysian and empyrean
is that elysian is of or pertaining to elysian or elysium, the location while empyrean is of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined.As a proper noun elysian
is (classical mythology) elysium; home of the blessed, after death.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.elysian
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Adjective
(-)- Unlike Raphael's "Galatea" and his "Three Graces", examples of Elysian happiness in a race in the state of innocence, Guilano's decorations resemble saturnalia of lubricity itself.
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.