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Phoenix   /fˈinɪks/   Listen
noun
Phenix  n.  (pl. phenixes)  (Written also phoenix)  
1.
(Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.
2.
(Astron.) A southern constellation.
3.
A marvelous person or thing. (R.)
4.
A person or thing that suffered destruction or defeat and was restored to its former state.
to rise like a phenix, to resume an endeavor after an apparently final defeat.


Phoenix  n.  
1.
Same as Phenix.
2.
(Bot.) (Capitalized) A genus of palms including the date tree.





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"Phoenix" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the effort to obtain it, I can do nothing towards procuring a single spark of it myself, because it all comes of the good pleasure of His Majesty, as I said on another occasion. [13] It seems to burn up the old man, with his faults, his lukewarmness, and misery; so that it is like the phoenix, of which I have read that it comes forth, after being burnt, out of its own ashes into a new life. Thus it is with the soul: it is changed into another, whose desires are different, and whose strength is great. It seems to ...
— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila
... me that matters are progressing well at Carlton House Terrace, and also in Paris. Of that I am glad to hear. Let our next meeting be at the Phoenix Hotel in Abo, where I am unknown, and which you can reach without notice. At present I dare not leave Russia, as Her Majesty will not hear ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... at ebb, but drove her back To listen to herself, herself accuse Harshly as Love's imperial cause allowed. She meant to grovel, and her lover praised So high o'er the condemnatory crowd, That she perforce a fellow phoenix blazed. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Year, reviving old Desires, The craving Phoenix rises from its Fires. Indeed, indeed Repentance oft I swore, But last Year's Pledge with this ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. (The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym Jr.) • Wallace Irwin
... with Lord F.L. Gower at his official residence in the Phoenix Park, I met there with an intelligent gentleman, Mr. Page, who was travelling in Ireland expressly to collect information upon this subject, which, no doubt, he means to publish. If you should hear of this pamphlet when it comes ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth


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