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Aether

noun

Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness.

A medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Synonym: ether.

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"Aether" Quotes from Famous Books

... first Earth and Heaven and Sea were all mixed and mingled together. There was neither Light nor Darkness then, but only a Dimness. This was Chaos. And from Chaos came forth Night and Erebus. From Night was born Aether, the Upper Air, and from Night and Erebus wedded there was ...

— The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles • Padraic Colum

... own Countrymen were the next both in Number and Dignity. I was now at Liberty to take a full Prospect of that delightful Region. I was inspired with new Vigour and Life, and saw every thing in nobler and more pleasing Views than before; I breathed a purer AEther in a Sky which was a continued Azure, gilded with perpetual Sunshine. The two Summits of the Mountain rose on each Side, and formed in the midst a most delicious Vale, the Habitation of the Muses, and of such as had composed Works worthy ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... From loud-rolling Ocean, whose stream{2} gave us birth To heights, whence we look over torrents down-pouring To the deep quiet vales of the fruit-giving earth,— As the broad eye of AEther, unwearied in brightness, Dissolves our mist-veil in glittering rays, Our forms we reveal from its vapoury lightness, In semblance ...

— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

Words linked to "Aether" : Greek deity, ether, medium