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- adjective Alternative spelling of
ethereal .
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Examples
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On the other hand, these are people who also seriously believe in aethereal beings that answer whiny pleas and need slick used-car salesmen to talk them through what they should think, once a week ... but who don't believe in ESP, ghosts, or any other supernatural events.
Yet Another "Star" Shows Their Brain bigdaddygoat 2005
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For instance, Copernicus's theory shared much of Aristotle's physics, Aristotle's commitment to spherical motion and his use of aethereal spheres, Kepler's geo-centrism
Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008
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But she had always thought of this collection of abstruse couplets and quatrains as completely aethereal, having no relation to ordinary people or ordinary events.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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But she had always thought of this collection of abstruse couplets and quatrains as completely aethereal, having no relation to ordinary people or ordinary events.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Thankfully, many game publishers have also lent their support, and have agreed to supply game products to help the Con along. aethereal
Cat Rambo catrambo 2007
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Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser commixture, and firing out the aethereal particles so deeply immersed in it.
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He has been treating the 'pure aethereal fire' which he also calls 'light' as a cause, and is clarifying the sense in which he does not mean it.
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Berkeley is much taken with the notion of a World Soul that is a 'pure aethereal fire'; and has been speculating Siris is explicitly a speculative work, put forward not dogmatically but as food for thought about its role in the functioning of the cosmos.
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In August 1812, he wrote a sonnet, ‘To a Balloon laden with Knowledge’: ‘Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even / silently takest thine aethereal way….’
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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In August 1812, he wrote a sonnet, ‘To a Balloon laden with Knowledge’: ‘Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even / silently takest thine aethereal way….’
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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