empyrean

  1. Noun.  The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy.
  2. Adjective.  of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined.

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