phœnix

A form of phoenix — A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

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Meanings

phœnix1

nounphœnix (plural phœnices or phœnixes)

plural phœnices · plural phœnixes

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of phoenix.

Phœnix2

proper noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of Phoenix.

    A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix At this houre reigning there.

    1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 13
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    The Clementine epistle (which, however, maintains not only the History of Judith, but also a plurality of worlds separated from each other by the Oceanus, and in a manner both of minute detail and of solemn asseveration the Nimrodian and Pantheistic fable of the bird Phœnix) was perhaps concocted for such a purpose.

    1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, volume IV, page 19
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