coelum empireum
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From Latin coelum empireum.
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coelum empireum (uncountable)
- (historical) The outermost part of the cosmos in the Ptolemaic system; Heaven.
- 1978, G. R. Potter, Zwingli, published 1984, page 17:
- Around [the earth] circled the stars in primum mobile and above this the heaven, coelum empireum, where Christ sat at the right hand of God
- 2002, Eric L. Saak, High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292–1524, page 426:
- After the death of the individual, the individual’s soul, if it is blessed, is taken to the celum empyreum to await the resurrection of the body.
- 2010, Paul Richard Blum, Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance, page 133:
- The Ptolemaic cosmos that depicted a Primum Mobile as the first sphere below the coelum empireum (also defined as habitaculum Dei) was well consistent with this thought.
Latin[edit]
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From coelum (alternative form of caelum) + empireus (from πῦρ (pûr)).
Noun[edit]
coelum empireum n (genitive coelī empireī); second declension
- (post-classical) coelum empireum (outermost part of the cosmos in the Ptolemaic system)
- c. 1190, Alexander Neckam, De Naturis Rerum, 1863 edition, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, page 21:
- Quis enim locus cœlo empireo sanctior?
- For which place is more holy than the coelum empireum?
- 1585, Hieronymus Theutonicus, Summa Theologiæ D. Th. Aquinatis, Doct. Angelici. iuxta præcipuas illius concluſiones in compendium redactæ, Tomus Primus, Damiano Zenario, page 471:
- Ergo & corpora ſanctorum, mouebuntur, ſcilicet aſcendendo de terra in cœlum empireum.
- Therefore also the bodies of the saints will be moved, to wit by ascending from the Earth to the coelum empireum.
- 1607, Ioannes Maior, editor, Magnum Speculum Exemplorum, Johannes van Keerbergen, page 338:
- Percontatus de hoc peregrinus reſpondit: in cœlo empireo vbi reſidet corpus Chriſti.
- Questioned about this, the traveler answered: in the coelum empireum, where the body of Christ resides.
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