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empyrical

empyrical adjective: containing the combustible principle of coal.

Adjective

empyrical (not comparable)

  1. Containing the combustible principle of coal.
    • , if it be rich , they will not extend above five or six inches ; but of these and some other empyrical marks , I shall say no more , as they do not tell us the defects of the soils1796, Richard Kirwan, The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils

Origin of empyrical

From Latin empyricus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios, “fiery”), from ἐν (en, “en-”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

Questions about empyrical

What does empyrical mean?
Empyrical means containing the combustible principle of coal.
What part of speech is empyrical?
Empyrical is an adjective.

Words near empyrical in the dictionary

  1. empyreumatize
  2. empyreumatized
  3. empyreumatizes
  4. empyreumatizing
  5. empyric
  6. empyrical
  7. empyrics
  8. empyromancy
  9. empyroses
  10. empyrosis
  11. Empúries

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