EMPYR'EAL, a. [L. empyroeus; from Gr. fire.] 1. Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere.2. Pure; vital; dephlogisticated; an epithet given to the air, or rather gas, now called oxygen.
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