Word Meanings - PHENIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• CONSUMINGLY
  In a consuming manner.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• EMBLEMIZE
  To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
• EXISTIBLE
  Capable of existence. Grew.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• CONSUMPTIVELY
  In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.
• CONSUMABLE
  Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. "Consumable commodities." Locke.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• EXISTENT
  Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.
• CONSUMPTIVE
  Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It is not consumptive
• FABLE
  1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison 2. The plot,
• SINGLE-MINDED
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• SELF-EXISTENT
  Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• INCONSUMPTIBLE
  Inconsumable. Sir K. Digby.
• POTASHES
  Potash.