empyrosis

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek in + to burn.

Noun[edit]

empyrosis (plural empyroses)

  1. (obsolete) A general fire; a conflagration.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: [] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, [], published 1677, →OCLC:
      the former Opinion that held these Cataclysms and Empyroses universal

References[edit]

empyrosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.