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English
Noun
phænomenon (plural phænomena or phænomenons)
- Archaic spelling of phenomenon.
1735, Jerome Lobo, translated by Samuel Johnson, A Voyage to Abyssinia, , London: Elliot and Kay, , and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, published 1789, page 116:It is eaſy to obſerve how many empty hypotheſis and idle reaſonings the phænomenons of this river have put mankind to the expence of.
- November 16, 1786, Tiberius Cavallo, Magnetical Experiments and Obſervations, page #22:
- This wonderful phænomenon has, ſince it was firſt diſcovered, employed the thoughts of very able philoſophers ; many hypotheſes having been offered, not only for its explanation, but even to foretel the future variations in various parts of the world.