单词 | phoenicity |
释义 | phoenicityn. rare. The quality or condition of being a phoenix. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird > phoenix > quality of being a phoenix phoenicity1901 1901 M. H. Dziewicki in Wyclif's Repl. de Univers. 136 (margin) Suppose there is but one phoenix in the world; there are the universal and the singular phoenicities, the former naturally prior to the latter, which is neither Phoenicity in itself nor not. 1934 A. E. Taylor Philos. Stud. 403 Plato is human, but Plato is not humanity, and even the phoenix, the ‘sole Arabian bird’, if it existed, would not be ‘phoenicity’, but God is Deity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1901 |
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