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ethereal
adjective
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
1667
: w: John Milton, Milton,
Paradise Lost
, book VII
: Go, heavenly guest, messenger.
1862
: w:Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau,
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Walking
Walking
.
: I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more , as our sky,...
Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
1733
: w:Alexander Pope, Pope,
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2428
An Essay on Man
: Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures , human, angel, man.
Delicate, light and airy.
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Etymology:
from Latin
aetherius
, from Ancient Greek (
polytonic, á
)
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