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Brewer's: U'niverse
(3 syl.). According to the Peripatetics, the universe consists of eleven spheres enclosed within each other like Chinese balls. The eleventh sphere is called the empyrean or heaven of the blessed. (See Heaven.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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