Meaning & use
ether
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A colorless, volatile liquid once widely used as an anesthetic; also, in older physics and poetic usage, the clear upper regions of the sky or a hypothetical medium filling space.
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Surgeons in the 19th century used ether to render patients unconscious before operations.
The poem describes the soul drifting off into the ether after death.
A note on using this word
Ether's scientific meaning as an anesthetic is now largely historical, while its poetic sense referring to the sky or space survives in phrases like "into the ether."
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