Phœnix

See also: phoenix, Phoenix, Phönix, and phœnix

English

Proper noun

Phœnix

  1. 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, 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.
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