Unearthly vs Empyrean - What's the difference?
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Not of the earth; non-terrestrial.
* 2012 , Charles Lockwood, Tragedy at Honda , page 65
Preternatural or supernatural.
* 2011 , Steven Saylor, Roma: The Epic Novel of Ancient Rome
Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
* 1819 [publ. Sep 1858], James Morton, "The Poetical Remains of the late Dr. John Leyden, with Memoirs of his Life", The Calcutta Review , volume 31, page 25
Ideal beyond the mundane.
* 2000 , Aileen Ribeiro, The Gallery of Fashion , page 42
Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
* 1927 , The Walther League Messenger , volume 36, page 225
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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Unearthly is a related term of empyrean.
As adjectives the difference between unearthly and empyrean
is that unearthly is not of the earth; non-terrestrial 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.unearthly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In the hard glare of the Searchlight, which had been manned by Seaman 2nd class Evans W. Watkins, the rock had the unearthly look of a miniature satellite in space.
- As a fourth finger snapped, Cacus gave an unearthly scream and relented.
- I then set out to survey the town in the self-same palankeen. The houses had all of them an unearthly appearance, by no means consonant to our ideas of Oriental splendor.
- By the late sixteenth century Elizabeth had become the icon-like Virgin Queen of legend, an image created, to a large extent, by her extraordinary, unearthly costume and appearance.
- I see my boys all wearing the same unearthly trousers, the same hair cuts, garish ties and sweaters, all rolling their socks and entertaining the same crazy notions about everything.
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.