etherealadj.n.

Brit.

/ᵻˈθɪərɪəl/, U.S.

/ᵻˈθɪriəl/,

/ɛˈθɪriəl/

Forms:

α. 1500s (Scottish) etheryall, 1500s–1600s aetheriall, 1500s–1600s etheriall, 1500s– etherial, 1600s– aetherial.

β. 1500s–1600s aethereall, 1500s–1600s ethereall, 1500s– aethereal, 1500s– ethereal.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin aetherius , aethereus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < classical Latin aetherius (also aethereus) of or connected with the upper air, sky, or heavens, heavenly, situated in the sky, (of rain) coming from the sky, (of mountains) reaching to the sky, of or belonging to heaven, divine, heaven-sent, divinely inspired, of the world of the living, especially as opposed to the underworld ( < ancient Greek αἰθέριος high in the air, heavenly < αἰθήρ ether n. + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives) + -al suffix¹. Classical Latin aethereus shows alteration of the ending after adjectives in -eus (see -eous suffix). Compare aerial adj. In ethereal oil at Compounds after post-classical Latin oleum aethereum (1650 or earlier).

A. adj.

1. Chiefly poetic. Of or relating to heaven, God, or the gods; heavenly, celestial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective]

holyc825

divinec1374

greatc1380

sainta1400

divinelyc1400

deific1490

ethereala1522

deifical1563

godly1582

numinous1647

numinal1652

deiform1654

deical1662

sacred1697

theistic1854

the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective]

heavenisheOE

heavenlyOE

celestienc1330

celestialc1384

celestly1400

supernc1429

supernal1447

ethereala1522

celesticala1533

supermundal?1577

paradised1594

etherean1600

Uranian1600

superlunary1614

unearthlya1616

supermundane1623

superterrestrial1635

supralunary1635

pantheana1641

supramundane1662

ethereous1667

supermundial1678

superlunar1742

superterrene1755

unworldly1765

supraterrestrial1836

supralunar1851

other world1882

other-worldish1894

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. iv. 73 Jupiter, the kyng etheryall.

a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii^v How-euer these, that Gods themselues do call, Of them doe claime the rule and souerainty: As, Vesta, of the fire æthereall.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 646 Go heavenly Guest, Ethereal Messenger.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 98 Heroes, whose Etherial Root, Is Jove himself.

1702 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother (ed. 2) i. i Nor could the Breath of Art kindle again Th' Etherial Fire.

1743 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneid vii. 192 Steeds of Etherial Breed.

1816 S. Rogers Poems (new ed.) 146 Bright and unsullied lives the ethereal flame.

1840 R. H. Barham Hand of Glory in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 50 Ethereal Spirits, gentle and good, Aye weep and lament o'er a deed of blood.

1940 A. B. Cook tr. Nonnos in Zeus III. ii. App. R. 1034 A bridal-bower, Which then the dazzling diverse-tinted form Of Iris the ethereal crowned.

2008 D. Linn Past Lives, Present Miracles (2010) ix. 238 You may also adapt the meditations..to call upon archangels... Here's a partial list of these ethereal beings.

2. Chiefly literary.

a. Of or relating to the sky or upper regions of space beyond the clouds; of or relating to the highest regions of the atmosphere.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective]

heavenisheOE

heavenlyOE

celestialc1400

celestinec1430

supernal?1504

celical1521

elemental1527

ethereal1530

celest1535

impyre1554

skyey1587

vaultedc1590

firmamental1600

empyreal1605

superior1632

firmamentary1633

ethereous1667

skied1789

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. ix. sig. g^v Pure regyon ethereall, where the sonne & y^e other starres renne.

1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados xii. Prol. 41 Phebus..Defoundand from his sege etheriall Glade influent aspectis, celicall.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. ix. 372 Porphyry reckneth gods that are either heauenly, ethereall [L. aethereos], ayry, watry, earthly, or infernall.

1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New World & Another Planet (new ed.) xiv. 207 The extreme coldnes of the æthereall ayre.

1738 C. Place Doctr. Light, Sight, & Colours 40 The æthereal subsolar Regions above the Atmosphere.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 42 There to breathe at large Ætherial Air.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 32 Mischiefs sent To blast mankind, from yon ethereal tower.

1863 I. G. Ascher Voices from Hearth 129 A dusky maiden of the Chippewas..Whose glance was purer than etherial stars.

1911 G. Showerman tr. F. Cumont Oriental Relig. in Rom. Paganism 207 This ineffable God, who comprehensively embraces everything, manifests himself especially in the resplendent brightness of the ethereal sky.

1964 G. Lewis Hard Traveling of Woody Guthrie (recording transcript) in J. Reid & W. K. Stratton Splendor in Short Grass (2005) 167 Hung suspended sixty stories above Manhattan in the dizzying ethereal heights of the chic Rainbow Room.

2009 E. Org Draw & Paint Realm of Faerie 96/1 Night..floats in ethereal space, bathed in moonlight, her eyes closed.

†b. Of or relating to the air or lower atmosphere, esp. as opposed to the earth or the underworld. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > [adjective]

etherealc1550

atmospherical1664

atmospherial1709

atmospheric1783

c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. l. 2244 The agill in the air at will Devoris the terrestriall volateill, And dantis the etheriall birdis small.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 Near the Confines of Etherial Light..Th' unwary Lover cast his Eyes behind.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 60 Of Bloom ethereal the light-footed Dews.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 85 Æthereal journies, submarine exploits.

1830 W. Wordsworth Egyptian Maid 183 Then up-went Into the ethereal element The Birds.

3. Of the nature of the ether of ancient cosmological speculation (cf. ether n. 1); consisting of or resembling such ether; extremely light in substance or composition, rarefied. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective]

thin849

subtilea1393

airya1398

subtlea1398

rarea1400

shirec1400

finea1425

solutec1440

intenuate1471

slender1528

ethereal1590

tenuous1597

spare1602

unsolid1611

unsolute1612

tenuious1634

etherical1656

airlike1821

wire-drawn1876

1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 31 Marchion thought Christes body a phantasticall one... The other [sc. Manichaeus] as fanatically imagined his body to be aiery and ethereal.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iv. 353 In the world, wherewith we are inuironned, [there is a continual ascending] from the elements and compound thinges, by the ethereall substance to heauen.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe v. 791 These Philosophers generally conceived, the Humane Soul..to have had a Lucid and Etherial Body..as its Chariot or Vehicle.

1774 R. Charleton Three Tracts Bath Water iii. 69 As soon as the waters are exposed to the open air, this ætherial substance..breaks through its watry prison, and wings its way towards its kindred element.

1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 27 In the kingdom of Ocean, water is the atmosphere, and, like its more ethereal relative, is ever rolling.

1912 Mind 21 152 If the moon were carried..round the earth by an etherial sphere, she would equally present the same face to us.

2012 N. Kanas Star Maps (ed. 2) iii. 91 These spheres were..made of some exotic crystalline or ethereal substance (Aristotle).

4. Spiritual, non-physical, or abstract in nature; supernatural; incorporeal; nebulous. Also: of a lightness, delicacy, or refinement that does not appear to belong to this world; otherworldly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > spiritual or immaterial

ghostlyOE

spiritualc1384

supersubstantial1534

spirit-like?1611

spirituous1634

ethereal1642

supersensual1647

spirituose1677

earthless1679

antemundane1693

suprasensual1780

supersensuous1825

suprasensuous1838

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F4^v Many put out their force informative In their ethereall corporeity, Devoid of heterogeneall organity.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 132 Some have taught That Bees have Portions of Etherial Thought.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 199 The soul may be also perceptive of finer impressions and ethereal contacts.

1783 H. Cowley Which is the Man? iii. i. 351 To their genius are all their faults imputed; which are considered as the graceful meanderings of a mind too ethereal to be kept down within the Rules of Common Sense.

1802 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 88 It is not possible to endure the draggling and the daubing of Dr. Rennel, after the ethereal touches of Mr. Burke.

1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama ii. 11 Only Kehama's powerful eye beheld The thin etherial spirit.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xv. 311 Her ethereal nature seemed to shrink from..coarse reality.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxi. 299 The far and ethereal masses of the Langdale Pikes.

1873 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. 365 As men, we only know of embodied spirits, however ethereal their bodies may be conceived to be.

1879 W. J. Loftie Ride in Egypt 150 A faith which is so wholly ethereal as to be independent of facts.

1904 F. Schloesser Cult of Chafing Dish 143 An omelette..may be light, frothy, ethereal, almost gossamer-like in its impalpable fairyhood.

1921 B. Drillien tr. A. France Monsieur Bergeret in Paris xiii. 136 They knew him to be endowed with an unusual sense of beauty,..and to live in the ethereal world of ideas.

1969 F. M. Barnard tr. J. G. Herder Origin Lang. in J. G. Herder on Social & Polit. Culture 122 Their pronunciation was..so delicately organized, their aspiration so spiritual and aetherial, that it faded away and could not be imprisoned in written symbols.

2011 L. Dare Never been Bit 281 God, she was beautiful. So ethereal, so sweet, so wholly deserving of more than he could give her.

5. Physics. Of the nature or consisting of the luminiferous ether (cf. ether n. 3); of or relating to this substance. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > diffused matter > [adjective] > ether

ethereal1651

ether1791

etheric1798

etheriform1834

etherical1920

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. ix. table between 40 & 41 Liquid Bodies that fill the space between the Starres; such as are the Ayre, or substance aetheriall.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 10 An æthereal subtile Matter..may penetrate and pervade the minutest and inmost Cavities of the closest Bodies.

1789 G. Adams Astron. & Geogr. Ess. 185 The rays coming from it [sc. a star], when they pass out of the purer etherial medium, into our coarser and more dense atmosphere, are refracted.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 328 All the substances in nature..may be considered either as solid, fluid, aëriform, or ethereal.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1877) xvi. 402 Millions of such etherial waves must successively make infinitesimal additions to its motion.

1920 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 220 210 In the dynamical theory..vector B appears as the complete æthereal magnetic force.

1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 375/1 Maxwell identified his hypothesis of ‘molecular vortices’ with the mechanics of an ethereal field.

6. Chemistry. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling (diethyl) ether (cf. ether n. 5); containing or dissolved in ether.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > ether > [adjective] > of or relating to or resembling

ethereal1794

etherous1801

1794 Mrs. Fulhame Ess. Combustion i. 14 In this ethereal solution of gold, I dipped a piece of silk.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 414 A combination of two parts of sulphuric acid and one of alcohol..emits a smell perceptibly ethereal.

1818 M. Faraday Exper. Res. viii. 24 Substituting a stream of æthereal vapour for the wick.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 306 To distinguish acetal from acetic ether and other etherial liquids.

1870 J. Y. Simpson Anæsthesia in Wks. (1871) II. 23 As early as 1805, Dr. Warren of Boston employed ethereal inhalation.

1928 B. W. Hammer Dairy Bacteriol. xv. 422 Other yeasts were also present, some of which gave pleasant, ethereal odors in beer wort.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 25 221/2 Only gross increases in the formation of ethereal sulphate are of toxicological significance.

2012 Tetrahedron 68 6578/1 A large excess of ethereal diazomethane solution was added dropwise at 0°C.

B. n.

1. An ethereal being, a spirit, an immortal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun]

ghostOE

spiritc1350

minda1398

sprite?1440

intelligencea1456

esperite1477

intelligency1582

genio1590

geniusa1592

ethereal1610

spirituality1628

supernatural1660

jynx1662

duende1691

atua1769

nat1819

demon1822

Wandjina1938

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. xi. 270 Aristotle saith that God beeing but one, is called by many names, the Lightner, the thunderer, the Ethereall, the Celestiall [etc.].

1649 J. Sadler Rights of Kingdom 92 Animals, Aerials, Etherials or Celestials.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xliv. 256 There is no sex in Ethereals.

?1790 S. Pattison Orig. Poems 22 Prime æthereals left their domes of light.

1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiv. 154 A spirit Unseen, nor having organs to discourse The rare ethereal of its too divine And necessary beauty.

1878 S. R. Ford Ernest Quest x. 210 Visitors were admitted at the option of the spirits alone. These indignant ethereals immediately denied me entrance.

1901 ‘Sir William’ Occults in Council I. xii. 155 I was accompanied in my flight here by a myriad of lovely angelic ethereals.

2010 P. Weldon Revenant vii. 62 Their very essence prevented them from remaining invisible to the eyes of the Ethereals.

2. With the. That which is ethereal; that which is incorporeal, non-physical, or spiritual.In quot. 1661 a particular form of the element air, as identified in ancient philosophy; cf. note at ether n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > [noun]

windc1250

airc1300

windiness1587

blore?1614

ethereal1661

ambient1677

ether1713

Ewigkeit1877

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective]

bodilessa1398

matterlessa1398

unmateriala1398

unbodily1398

immaterialc1450

metaphysic1528

incorporeal1532

incorporate1540

incorporal1551

uncorporal1567

metaphysical1577

unphysical1593

limbless1594

corpseless1596

unbodied1609

immateriate1626

incorporeous1638

uncarnate1646

unmattered1647

incorporificated1651

unembodied1662

unessential1667

inessential1677

unelementarya1706

unelementateda1706

unincarnate1709

immechanical1715

asomatous1731

unincorporate1821

unfleshly1834

ethereal1836

non-material1847

non-physical1856

unincarnated1859

discorporate1888

transubstantial1892

1661 J. Evelyn Fumifugium i. 1 The Ætherial, which is a certain Aer of Plato's denomination.

1836 Amer. Monthly Mag. May 483 Earth takes its own, That the ethereal may arise, And dwell by the eternal throne.

1851 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 2 153 This Mantra, like the universe, exists in three successive stages of development, which may be styled the Ethereal, the Spiritual, and the Corporeal.

1905 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 318/2 It is..to the inspiration which lies in the ethereal, the remote and the unknown, that the world owes some of its sweetest poems.

2001 D. S. Khalsa & C. Stauth Medit. as Med. (2002) 20 To have any true or workable knowledge of this healing force, we must go beyond the physical, into the ethereal.

Compounds

ethereal oil (a) = essential oil n. at essential adj. 5b; (b) Pharmacology a mixture of ether and ethyl sulphate obtained by distilling ethanol with sulphuric acid (now rare).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > volatile oil

ethereal oil1664

essential oil1682

volatile oil1800

1664 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry II. ii. iii. 114 If you joyn again this portion of Ætherial Oyl, or Spirit to its Phlegm or watery part, you shall restore it immediately to its capacity of heating which it had before.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Æthereal The pure Liquor rising next after the Spirit, in the Distillation of Turpentine, is called the Æthereal Oil of Turpentine.

1790 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. (new ed.) III. Anc. & Mod. Names 14 (table) Oil of wine, sweet. Etherial oil.

1809 R. Powell tr. Pharmacopœia Royal Coll. Physicians London (ed. 2) 263 Compound Spirit of Æther. Take of Spirit of sulphuric Æther, a pint. Æthereal Oil, two fluidrachms. Mix.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 July 7/1 Absinthe..contains several ethereal oils.

1907 Spatula Nov. 121/2 Describe oleum aethereum. Ethereal oil. A volatile liquid consisting of equal volumes of heavy oil of wine and ether.

1964 Food & Cosmetics Toxicol. 2 406 Ethereal oils are rapidly absorbed by the skin, mucous membranes, lungs and alimentary canal.

2004 Econ. Bot. 58 Suppl. S195/2 An ethereal oil burns around the flowers when lit with a match.

Derivatives

eˈtherealism n. = ethereality n. 2.

ΚΠ

1827 London Lit. Gaz. 10 Mar. 153/2 Such men care not for analytical, experimental, demonstrative: imagination, invention, etherialism, are the sources of their profound knowledge.

1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne III. xxi. 253 That mysterious passion called by the name of love (and which..cannot in its refined etherealism be known to many of us) had not been given to him.

1993 Classic CD Oct. 52/4 Tipo treats it as music from another world—breathtaking in its lofty etherealism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ethereal
释义	etherealadj.n. Brit. /ᵻˈθɪərɪəl/, U.S. /ᵻˈθɪriəl/, /ɛˈθɪriəl/ Forms: α. 1500s (Scottish) etheryall, 1500s–1600s aetheriall, 1500s–1600s etheriall, 1500s– etherial, 1600s– aetherial. β. 1500s–1600s aethereall, 1500s–1600s ethereall, 1500s– aethereal, 1500s– ethereal. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin aetherius , aethereus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < classical Latin aetherius (also aethereus) of or connected with the upper air, sky, or heavens, heavenly, situated in the sky, (of rain) coming from the sky, (of mountains) reaching to the sky, of or belonging to heaven, divine, heaven-sent, divinely inspired, of the world of the living, especially as opposed to the underworld ( < ancient Greek αἰθέριος high in the air, heavenly < αἰθήρ ether n. + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives) + -al suffix¹. Classical Latin aethereus shows alteration of the ending after adjectives in -eus (see -eous suffix). Compare aerial adj. In ethereal oil at Compounds after post-classical Latin oleum aethereum (1650 or earlier). A. adj. 1. Chiefly poetic. Of or relating to heaven, God, or the gods; heavenly, celestial. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] holyc825 divinec1374 greatc1380 sainta1400 divinelyc1400 deific1490 ethereala1522 deifical1563 godly1582 numinous1647 numinal1652 deiform1654 deical1662 sacred1697 theistic1854 the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] heavenisheOE heavenlyOE heavenlyOE celestienc1330 celestialc1384 celestly1400 supernc1429 supernal1447 ethereala1522 celesticala1533 supermundal?1577 paradised1594 etherean1600 Uranian1600 superlunary1614 unearthlya1616 supermundane1623 superterrestrial1635 supralunary1635 pantheana1641 supramundane1662 ethereous1667 supermundial1678 superlunar1742 superterrene1755 unworldly1765 supraterrestrial1836 supralunar1851 other world1882 other-worldish1894 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. iv. 73 Jupiter, the kyng etheryall. a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii^v How-euer these, that Gods themselues do call, Of them doe claime the rule and souerainty: As, Vesta, of the fire æthereall. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 646 Go heavenly Guest, Ethereal Messenger. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 98 Heroes, whose Etherial Root, Is Jove himself. View more context for this quotation 1702 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother (ed. 2) i. i Nor could the Breath of Art kindle again Th' Etherial Fire. 1743 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneid vii. 192 Steeds of Etherial Breed. 1816 S. Rogers Poems (new ed.) 146 Bright and unsullied lives the ethereal flame. 1840 R. H. Barham Hand of Glory in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 50 Ethereal Spirits, gentle and good, Aye weep and lament o'er a deed of blood. 1940 A. B. Cook tr. Nonnos in Zeus III. ii. App. R. 1034 A bridal-bower, Which then the dazzling diverse-tinted form Of Iris the ethereal crowned. 2008 D. Linn Past Lives, Present Miracles (2010) ix. 238 You may also adapt the meditations..to call upon archangels... Here's a partial list of these ethereal beings. 2. Chiefly literary. a. Of or relating to the sky or upper regions of space beyond the clouds; of or relating to the highest regions of the atmosphere. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] heavenisheOE heavenlyOE celestialc1400 celestinec1430 supernal?1504 celical1521 elemental1527 ethereal1530 celest1535 impyre1554 skyey1587 vaultedc1590 firmamental1600 empyreal1605 superior1632 firmamentary1633 ethereous1667 skied1789 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. ix. sig. g^v Pure regyon ethereall, where the sonne & y^e other starres renne. 1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados xii. Prol. 41 Phebus..Defoundand from his sege etheriall Glade influent aspectis, celicall. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. ix. 372 Porphyry reckneth gods that are either heauenly, ethereall [L. aethereos], ayry, watry, earthly, or infernall. 1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New World & Another Planet (new ed.) xiv. 207 The extreme coldnes of the æthereall ayre. 1738 C. Place Doctr. Light, Sight, & Colours 40 The æthereal subsolar Regions above the Atmosphere. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 42 There to breathe at large Ætherial Air. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 32 Mischiefs sent To blast mankind, from yon ethereal tower. 1863 I. G. Ascher Voices from Hearth 129 A dusky maiden of the Chippewas..Whose glance was purer than etherial stars. 1911 G. Showerman tr. F. Cumont Oriental Relig. in Rom. Paganism 207 This ineffable God, who comprehensively embraces everything, manifests himself especially in the resplendent brightness of the ethereal sky. 1964 G. Lewis Hard Traveling of Woody Guthrie (recording transcript) in J. Reid & W. K. Stratton Splendor in Short Grass (2005) 167 Hung suspended sixty stories above Manhattan in the dizzying ethereal heights of the chic Rainbow Room. 2009 E. Org Draw & Paint Realm of Faerie 96/1 Night..floats in ethereal space, bathed in moonlight, her eyes closed. †b. Of or relating to the air or lower atmosphere, esp. as opposed to the earth or the underworld. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > [adjective] etherealc1550 atmospherical1664 atmospherial1709 atmospheric1783 c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. l. 2244 The agill in the air at will Devoris the terrestriall volateill, And dantis the etheriall birdis small. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 Near the Confines of Etherial Light..Th' unwary Lover cast his Eyes behind. View more context for this quotation 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 60 Of Bloom ethereal the light-footed Dews. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 85 Æthereal journies, submarine exploits. 1830 W. Wordsworth Egyptian Maid 183 Then up-went Into the ethereal element The Birds. 3. Of the nature of the ether of ancient cosmological speculation (cf. ether n. 1); consisting of or resembling such ether; extremely light in substance or composition, rarefied. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] thin849 subtilea1393 airya1398 subtlea1398 rarea1400 shirec1400 finea1425 solutec1440 intenuate1471 slender1528 ethereal1590 tenuous1597 spare1602 unsolid1611 unsolute1612 tenuious1634 etherical1656 airlike1821 wire-drawn1876 1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 31 Marchion thought Christes body a phantasticall one... The other [sc. Manichaeus] as fanatically imagined his body to be aiery and ethereal. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iv. 353 In the world, wherewith we are inuironned, [there is a continual ascending] from the elements and compound thinges, by the ethereall substance to heauen. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe v. 791 These Philosophers generally conceived, the Humane Soul..to have had a Lucid and Etherial Body..as its Chariot or Vehicle. 1774 R. Charleton Three Tracts Bath Water iii. 69 As soon as the waters are exposed to the open air, this ætherial substance..breaks through its watry prison, and wings its way towards its kindred element. 1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 27 In the kingdom of Ocean, water is the atmosphere, and, like its more ethereal relative, is ever rolling. 1912 Mind 21 152 If the moon were carried..round the earth by an etherial sphere, she would equally present the same face to us. 2012 N. Kanas Star Maps (ed. 2) iii. 91 These spheres were..made of some exotic crystalline or ethereal substance (Aristotle). 4. Spiritual, non-physical, or abstract in nature; supernatural; incorporeal; nebulous. Also: of a lightness, delicacy, or refinement that does not appear to belong to this world; otherworldly. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > spiritual or immaterial ghostlyOE spiritualc1384 supersubstantial1534 spirit-like?1611 spirituous1634 ethereal1642 supersensual1647 spirituose1677 earthless1679 antemundane1693 suprasensual1780 supersensuous1825 suprasensuous1838 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F4^v Many put out their force informative In their ethereall corporeity, Devoid of heterogeneall organity. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 132 Some have taught That Bees have Portions of Etherial Thought. View more context for this quotation 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 199 The soul may be also perceptive of finer impressions and ethereal contacts. 1783 H. Cowley Which is the Man? iii. i. 351 To their genius are all their faults imputed; which are considered as the graceful meanderings of a mind too ethereal to be kept down within the Rules of Common Sense. 1802 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 88 It is not possible to endure the draggling and the daubing of Dr. Rennel, after the ethereal touches of Mr. Burke. 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama ii. 11 Only Kehama's powerful eye beheld The thin etherial spirit. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xv. 311 Her ethereal nature seemed to shrink from..coarse reality. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxi. 299 The far and ethereal masses of the Langdale Pikes. 1873 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. 365 As men, we only know of embodied spirits, however ethereal their bodies may be conceived to be. 1879 W. J. Loftie Ride in Egypt 150 A faith which is so wholly ethereal as to be independent of facts. 1904 F. Schloesser Cult of Chafing Dish 143 An omelette..may be light, frothy, ethereal, almost gossamer-like in its impalpable fairyhood. 1921 B. Drillien tr. A. France Monsieur Bergeret in Paris xiii. 136 They knew him to be endowed with an unusual sense of beauty,..and to live in the ethereal world of ideas. 1969 F. M. Barnard tr. J. G. Herder Origin Lang. in J. G. Herder on Social & Polit. Culture 122 Their pronunciation was..so delicately organized, their aspiration so spiritual and aetherial, that it faded away and could not be imprisoned in written symbols. 2011 L. Dare Never been Bit 281 God, she was beautiful. So ethereal, so sweet, so wholly deserving of more than he could give her. 5. Physics. Of the nature or consisting of the luminiferous ether (cf. ether n. 3); of or relating to this substance. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > diffused matter > [adjective] > ether ethereal1651 ether1791 etheric1798 etheriform1834 etherical1920 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. ix. table between 40 & 41 Liquid Bodies that fill the space between the Starres; such as are the Ayre, or substance aetheriall. 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 10 An æthereal subtile Matter..may penetrate and pervade the minutest and inmost Cavities of the closest Bodies. 1789 G. Adams Astron. & Geogr. Ess. 185 The rays coming from it [sc. a star], when they pass out of the purer etherial medium, into our coarser and more dense atmosphere, are refracted. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 328 All the substances in nature..may be considered either as solid, fluid, aëriform, or ethereal. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1877) xvi. 402 Millions of such etherial waves must successively make infinitesimal additions to its motion. 1920 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 220 210 In the dynamical theory..vector B appears as the complete æthereal magnetic force. 1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 375/1 Maxwell identified his hypothesis of ‘molecular vortices’ with the mechanics of an ethereal field. 6. Chemistry. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling (diethyl) ether (cf. ether n. 5); containing or dissolved in ether. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > ether > [adjective] > of or relating to or resembling ethereal1794 etherous1801 1794 Mrs. Fulhame Ess. Combustion i. 14 In this ethereal solution of gold, I dipped a piece of silk. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 414 A combination of two parts of sulphuric acid and one of alcohol..emits a smell perceptibly ethereal. 1818 M. Faraday Exper. Res. viii. 24 Substituting a stream of æthereal vapour for the wick. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 306 To distinguish acetal from acetic ether and other etherial liquids. 1870 J. Y. Simpson Anæsthesia in Wks. (1871) II. 23 As early as 1805, Dr. Warren of Boston employed ethereal inhalation. 1928 B. W. Hammer Dairy Bacteriol. xv. 422 Other yeasts were also present, some of which gave pleasant, ethereal odors in beer wort. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 25 221/2 Only gross increases in the formation of ethereal sulphate are of toxicological significance. 2012 Tetrahedron 68 6578/1 A large excess of ethereal diazomethane solution was added dropwise at 0°C. B. n. 1. An ethereal being, a spirit, an immortal. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun] ghostOE spiritc1350 minda1398 sprite?1440 intelligencea1456 esperite1477 intelligency1582 genio1590 geniusa1592 ethereal1610 spirituality1628 supernatural1660 jynx1662 duende1691 atua1769 nat1819 demon1822 Wandjina1938 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. xi. 270 Aristotle saith that God beeing but one, is called by many names, the Lightner, the thunderer, the Ethereall, the Celestiall [etc.]. 1649 J. Sadler Rights of Kingdom 92 Animals, Aerials, Etherials or Celestials. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xliv. 256 There is no sex in Ethereals. ?1790 S. Pattison Orig. Poems 22 Prime æthereals left their domes of light. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiv. 154 A spirit Unseen, nor having organs to discourse The rare ethereal of its too divine And necessary beauty. 1878 S. R. Ford Ernest Quest x. 210 Visitors were admitted at the option of the spirits alone. These indignant ethereals immediately denied me entrance. 1901 ‘Sir William’ Occults in Council I. xii. 155 I was accompanied in my flight here by a myriad of lovely angelic ethereals. 2010 P. Weldon Revenant vii. 62 Their very essence prevented them from remaining invisible to the eyes of the Ethereals. 2. With the. That which is ethereal; that which is incorporeal, non-physical, or spiritual.In quot. 1661 a particular form of the element air, as identified in ancient philosophy; cf. note at ether n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] windc1250 airc1300 windiness1587 blore?1614 ethereal1661 ambient1677 ether1713 Ewigkeit1877 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] bodilessa1398 matterlessa1398 unmateriala1398 unbodily1398 immaterialc1450 metaphysic1528 incorporeal1532 incorporate1540 incorporal1551 uncorporal1567 metaphysical1577 unphysical1593 limbless1594 corpseless1596 unbodied1609 immateriate1626 incorporeous1638 uncarnate1646 unmattered1647 incorporificated1651 unembodied1662 unessential1667 inessential1677 unelementarya1706 unelementateda1706 unincarnate1709 immechanical1715 asomatous1731 unincorporate1821 unfleshly1834 ethereal1836 non-material1847 non-physical1856 unincarnated1859 discorporate1888 transubstantial1892 1661 J. Evelyn Fumifugium i. 1 The Ætherial, which is a certain Aer of Plato's denomination. 1836 Amer. Monthly Mag. May 483 Earth takes its own, That the ethereal may arise, And dwell by the eternal throne. 1851 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 2 153 This Mantra, like the universe, exists in three successive stages of development, which may be styled the Ethereal, the Spiritual, and the Corporeal. 1905 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 318/2 It is..to the inspiration which lies in the ethereal, the remote and the unknown, that the world owes some of its sweetest poems. 2001 D. S. Khalsa & C. Stauth Medit. as Med. (2002) 20 To have any true or workable knowledge of this healing force, we must go beyond the physical, into the ethereal. Compounds ethereal oil (a) = essential oil n. at essential adj. 5b; (b) Pharmacology a mixture of ether and ethyl sulphate obtained by distilling ethanol with sulphuric acid (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > volatile oil ethereal oil1664 essential oil1682 volatile oil1800 1664 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry II. ii. iii. 114 If you joyn again this portion of Ætherial Oyl, or Spirit to its Phlegm or watery part, you shall restore it immediately to its capacity of heating which it had before. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Æthereal The pure Liquor rising next after the Spirit, in the Distillation of Turpentine, is called the Æthereal Oil of Turpentine. 1790 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. (new ed.) III. Anc. & Mod. Names 14 (table) Oil of wine, sweet. Etherial oil. 1809 R. Powell tr. Pharmacopœia Royal Coll. Physicians London (ed. 2) 263 Compound Spirit of Æther. Take of Spirit of sulphuric Æther, a pint. Æthereal Oil, two fluidrachms. Mix. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 July 7/1 Absinthe..contains several ethereal oils. 1907 Spatula Nov. 121/2 Describe oleum aethereum. Ethereal oil. A volatile liquid consisting of equal volumes of heavy oil of wine and ether. 1964 Food & Cosmetics Toxicol. 2 406 Ethereal oils are rapidly absorbed by the skin, mucous membranes, lungs and alimentary canal. 2004 Econ. Bot. 58 Suppl. S195/2 An ethereal oil burns around the flowers when lit with a match. Derivatives eˈtherealism n. = ethereality n. 2. ΚΠ 1827 London Lit. Gaz. 10 Mar. 153/2 Such men care not for analytical, experimental, demonstrative: imagination, invention, etherialism, are the sources of their profound knowledge. 1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne III. xxi. 253 That mysterious passion called by the name of love (and which..cannot in its refined etherealism be known to many of us) had not been given to him. 1993 Classic CD Oct. 52/4 Tipo treats it as music from another world—breathtaking in its lofty etherealism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1522
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