Word:
Emphyrean
Status:
Noun
Meaning:
The highest heavenly point or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology consisting of fore amd light: an ideal place or state
Sentences:
1) He ascended to the emphyrean after a life of good deed.
2) Most ticket-buyers have no problem in imagining the emphyrean the lottery would inevitably bring about.
Origin:
Late Medieval English(as an adjective): via Medieval, from Greek empurios, from in- + pur meaning 'fire'.
First use:
circa 1610
Synonyms:
above, bliss, heaven, kingdom
Antonyms:
Gehenna, hell, Pandemonium.
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