Obs. Also 4 empiry, 6 empire. [ad. med.L. (cælum) empyreum, empyrium: see EMPYREAL.] = EMPYREAL, EMPYREAN.

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c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 7761. Þis heven is cald heven empiry.

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1520.  Myrr. our Ladye, 302. Heuen empyre.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., 48. The hauyn empire.

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1594.  J. Dickenson, Arisbas (1878), 30. His heroique spirit … hath ascended to the Empyre heauen.

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