EMPYREAN (from the Med.

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• LAT

Lat. empyreus, an

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• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the Gr. €p1rvpos, in or on the

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• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire, avp)  , the place in the highest heaven, which in ancient cosmologies was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire . It was thus used as a name for the firmament, and in Christian literature for the dwelling-place of God and the blessed, and as the source of light . The word is used both as a substantive and as an adjective . Having the same Greek origin are the scientific words " empyreuma " and " empyreumatic," applied to the characteristic smell of burning or charring vegetable or animal matter .