Meanings
nounempyrosis (plural empyroses)
plural empyroses
- obsoleteA general fire; a conflagration.
the former Opinion that held these Cataclysms and Empyroses universal
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
Origin
From Ancient Greek in + to burn.
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