Many ancient cultures studied empyrean objects and occurrences and made monuments to honor what they observed. From LearnThat.org.
The empyrean sphere. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : empyreal blue. ,empyreal radiance. From Dictionary.com.
From the ninth sphere to the empyrean, which is mere light. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise. Canto XXX] Reference
From the ninth sphere to the empyrean, which is more light.v. 44. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
Supreme power, the beetle that folds his wings, that rests in the empyrean, that is born as his own son. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings] Reference
643 One of the halls of the empyrean, which is here personified as a goddess. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings] Reference
The empyrean, which is always motionless. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise. Canto I] Reference
But they help remove the arguments from the empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative, essentialist] Reference
He soars to the empyrean; they haunt the valley mists. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Her eyes were clear as the sky, blue, empyrean, transcendent. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
Clouds piled into empyrean mountain ranges above the shimmering sea. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
Abhá Paradise cried out and wept, and in their empyrean abode the Maids of. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
The University cannot progress or survive in a sheer intellectual empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [Your University and Canada's Finest Generation] Reference
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Raven screeches at me from his empyrean atop a trashcan on the gray sidewalk. From Wordnik.com. [Hoops « A Fly in Amber] Reference
The professional bailiwick weâve staked out is the empyrean of pure thought. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
It's less a taste than a pure, empyrean high, a transformative total body experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Mini-Me Decade and Other Digressions] Reference
The clouds beneath our feet, the sun above our heads, and God's empyrean all about us. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Petersburg station, and there, upon the noisy, crowded platform, reached his empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
If you'd been a medieval European, it would have told you you'd made it to the empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
He came plunging down from the rarefied empyrean of his peak in Darien to walk among us. From Wordnik.com. [David Arquette? The subtle art of the C-SPAN breakup] Reference
It was still an empyrean skyscape, an arcing firmament stacked with rafts and mountains of cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
He crossed the echoing crawlspace between worlds and emerged in the empyrean reaches of Serra's Realm. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
Updates, 11/23: David Lowery: For all its empyrean visuals, I found The Fountain curiously earthbound. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.] Reference
Isn't the pieplate really the empyrean indication of character broadcast, as told us by you, in so many ways?. From Wordnik.com. [Owning Your Bike: All You Haters Hold the Mayo] Reference
There she sat like a majestic swan, floating, as it were, in the pure empyrean, and crowned with a diadem of stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
With the Fish House to meditate in, it is no wonder that Rauschenberg has learned to harness his vision to the empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [Rauschenberg's Epic Vision] Reference
But the rich have their miracles, no doubt, even in that beautiful empyrean of moneyed ease in which the poor place them. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
How clever of Nixon to stick McGovern with the domestic while he himself flies in the empyrean, latitudes of fire and light. From Wordnik.com. [On the Election] Reference
Reply Obj. 4: In one way by the third heaven we may understand something corporeal, and thus the third heaven denotes the empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Mrs. Rundell is little consulted nowadays; but time was when Mrs. Glasse and herself were the twin stars of the culinary empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
London had learned of astral forms and the empyrean at his mother's knee but could never translate such occult esoterica into good fiction. From Wordnik.com. [The woe of an aspiring genius.] Reference
The short-lived winged child of poetic inspiration gleams but for a moment and disappears, as a flame flickering back to its native empyrean. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Whence comes that empyrean fire, which irradiates their whole being, and pierces, at least in starry gleams, like a diviner thing, into all hearts?. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
But Elias appeared in his own body, not that he was brought down from the empyrean heaven, but from some place on high whither he was taken up in the fiery chariot. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
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