Citations:phœnomena

Noun: plural of phœnomenon

 * 1815, unknown, Observations on the Animal Œconomy, page #3:
 * The hypotheses which have been invented to explain the phœnomena of nervous influence, and which have by many, especially among the older writers, been also applied to the vital principle itself, may be referred to two heads ;
 * 1822, William Daniel Conybeare & William Phillips Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, pages i–ii:
 * In the endeavouring to sketch the general bearings of the phœnomena which it is the business of every geological treatise to illustrate, the most simple and natural method will be to trace those phœnomena in the order in which they would present themselves to the consideration of an intelligent observers who should study for himself, with the fhe eyes of an original discoverer, this part of nature ;
 * 1868, Alexander Bain, Mental Science, Chapter I., page #3:
 * Sir William Hamilton, in remarking on the arrangement followed in the writings of Professor Dugald Stewart, states his own view as follows :—‘ If we take the Mental to the exclusion of Material phœnomena, that is, the phœnomena manifested through the medium of Self‐consciousness or Reflection, they naturally divide themselves into three categories or primary genera ;—the phœnomena of Knowledge or Cognition,—the phœnomena of Feeling or of Pleasure and Pain,—and the phœnomena of Conation or of Will and Desire.’