• Phœnician

    Full definition of Phœnician

    Adjective

    Phœnician

    1. Obsolete spelling of en
      • 1833, Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva, Phœnician Ireland.
      • Landon Ethel Churchill|page=138|volume=III|passage="What diverts me the most," continued Sir George, " is, Ulysses being always called 'the much enduring man.' After all his ten years of wandering are past, pleasantly enough, the greater portion of them being spent with Circe and Calypso—to be sure, it was rather tiresome staying so long with the last—how he must have enjoyed his flirtation with the Phœnician princess!"

    Noun

    Phœnician

    (plural Phœnicians)
    1. Obsolete spelling of en
      • 1859, George E. Eyre; William Spottiswoode, Patents for Invention. Abridgments of Specifications relating to Printing, Plutarch, and others ascribe its introduction to the West to Cadmus—a Phœnician who founded Thebes, B.C. 1500.
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