Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Empyreuma

Empyreuma , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} a live coal covered with ashes, from {not transcribed} to set on fire, from {not transcribed}: compare French empyreume. See Empyreal.]

(Chemistry) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.