different between hallowed vs empyrean

English

Etymology

From Middle English halwed (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), from Old English ?eh?lgod (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), past participle of h?lgian (“to hallow, make holy”). Equivalent to hallow +? -ed. More at hallow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hal??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hælo?d/
• Homophone: halloed

Adjective

hallowed (comparative more hallowed, superlative most hallowed)

1. Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XI:

     When ye praye, saye: Oure father which arte in heven, halowed be thy name.

Antonyms

• (sanctified, blessed): unhallowed

Derived terms

• mishallowed
• unhallowed

Translations

Verb

hallowed

1. simple past tense and past participle of hallow

English

Etymology

From Latin emp?reus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (empúrios), from ?? (en, “in”) + ??? (pûr, “fire”) (whence English pyre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pa???i?n?/, /?m?p??i.?n/

Noun

empyrean (plural empyreans)

1. (historical) 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.

Related terms

• pyre

Adjective

empyrean (not comparable)

1. Of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined.
   • 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Saeculare

     Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies;
     Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.

Synonyms

• empyreal

Translations

References

• empyrean in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “empyrean”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Further reading

• empyrean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia