Phœnix
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Phœnix
- Obsolete spelling of Phoenix.
- 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:
- 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.
- 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod[1], volume IV, page 19:
- 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.