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单词 empyreum
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empyreumn.1

Brit. /ˌɛmpᵻˈriːəm/, /ˌɛmpʌɪˈriːəm/, U.S. /ˌɛmˌpaɪˈriəm/, /ˌɛmpəˈriəm/, /ˌɛmˈpɪriəm/
Forms:

α. 1500s impirum.

β. 1600s empireum, 1600s empyraeum, 1600s– empyreum.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin empyreum.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin empyreum (also empireum) fiery heaven or sphere of fire (from 10th cent. (frequently from 12th cent.) in British sources; also in continental sources), use as noun (short for caelum empyreum fiery heaven) of neuter of empyreus fiery (see empyreal adj.). Compare Middle French, French empyreume (1579). Compare earlier empyreal adj., empyreal n., and also earlier empyre adj.With the α. forms compare im- prefix1 and α. forms at empyreal adj. and n.
= empyrean n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > highest
seventh heavenOE
empyrealc1450
empyreum1565
empyrean1667
1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον 132 That heauen which is called Impirum, where is the region of the blessed saintes.
1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels (Isa. lvii. 21) 206 The third heauen is called by Philosophers, empyreum: by Diuines, the glorious heauen: by scriptures, heauen of heauens.
1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 107 In th' Empyræum of pure Harmony.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 11 Prove, if they are other Suns..Or Windows in the Empyreum.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo vii, in Wks. (1721) III. 200 Through Empyreum..Thousands of thousands their bright Beams display.
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit v. 47 When the Christian..has ranged the regions of empyreum for some thousands of years.
1817 W. Hazlitt Round Table II. xlix. 232 Poetry..has the range of the universe; it traverses the empyreum, and looks down on nature from a higher sphere.
1898 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 25 June 1530 Our climate..extends several hundred miles north and south, east and west, while above it is bounded only by the sunshine and the empyreum of God's heavens.
1921 School & Society 29 Oct. 350/2 We should..describe the present conditions in general and philosophic terms, and, then, soaring into the empyreum, present a beautiful vision of our commonwealth.
1982 J. James Chartres (1990) 161 The dark band of the triforium may have been seen as that indefinable region between earth and heaven, the zone of the stars and the empyreum that separates the mortal from the celestial.
2005 Tempo No. 231. 84/2 A 95-minute pitch-wise journey..reminiscent of Dante's journey to Empyreum by way of the Pit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

empyreumn.2

Brit. /ˌɛmpᵻˈriːəm/, U.S. /ˌɛmpəˈriəm/
Forms: 1600s empyreume, 1600s– empyreum.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French empyreume; Latin empyreuma.
Etymology: < (i) French empyreume (1552 in Middle French, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin empyreuma empyreuma n. Compare earlier empyreuma n.
Now rare.
= empyreuma n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > high temperature
heatc1000
fever heata1398
empyreuma1634
empyreum1651
hyperthermia1886
1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces iv. 250 As if one distil black and impure Amber by a retort, the separation would be made by fire, of the water savouring of the Empyreum of the oyl and volatile salt, and the Caput mortuum be left in the bottome of the retort.
1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 24 They impress an Empyreume upon the intrails for want of subtil dissipative parts.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Angelica There may be Danger of an Empyreum from another Fire.
1846 W. L. Tizard Theory & Pract. Brewing (ed. 2) xvii. 484 Country-brewed porters,..often tasting of empyreum.
1908 Proc. Section Sci. 10 244 (table) Very indefinite empyreum, odour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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