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Phenix   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.





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"Phenix" Quotes from Famous Books



... beinge two shippes, the John & Francis & Phenix, with one hundred & twenty persons, worse every way provided for then the former, arrived heere about eight or nine months after & found the Collony consistinge of no more then forty persons (of those) tenn only able ...
— Colonial Records of Virginia • Various


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