Meaning of phœnomenon | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“When a ſmall quantity of any gypſum is melted together with borax, the glaſs becomes colourleſs and tranſparent; but I have found ſome ſorts of alabaſter and ſparry gypſa that, when melted in ſome quantity with borax, yield a fine yellow tranſparent colour, reſembling that of the beſt topaſes. This phœnomenon might probably happen with every one of the gypſeous kind.”

“He is a fine cheſtnut, riſing 6 years old, 16 & half hands high, got by the famous Phœnomenon, whoſe Grandſire was the noted Eclipſe, Dam Recovery by Hyder Ally, Grandam Perdita by Herod, great Grandam by Sampſon, & out of the Laſs of the Mill.”

“No man was ever known to poſſeſs ſuch wonderful activity as Mr. Ireland, the flying Phœnomenon, at the Royal Circus; he poſitively leaps over a large tilted waggon and four horſes, and performs a number of other feats equally aſtoniſhing; he is a young man of about 23 years of age, 6 feet and an inch high, and does not make uſe of a ſpring board or trampoline.”

“Nay more ; that the construction employed to justify the ‘Sedition Act,’ would exhibit a phœnomenon without a parrallel in the political world.”

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