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938 ♥ / 1 week ago

victoriousvocabulary:

ROGALIAN
[adjective]
of or pertaining to a great fire.

1073 ♥ / 6 months ago

myprettyuniverse:

Iceland - Fire and Ice by Jarrod Castaing on Flickr.

5 ♥ / 7 months ago

victoriousvocabulary:

PYROCHOREAN
[adjective]
Informal: of, like, or pertaining to dancing around a fire.

133 ♥ / 7 months ago

victoriousvocabulary:

FLICKER
[verb]
1. to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light.
2. to move to and fro; vibrate; quiver.
3. to flutter.
[noun]
4. an unsteady flame or light.
5. a flickering movement.
6. a brief occurrence or appearance.
7. Ophthalmology: the visual sensation of flickering that occurs when the interval between intermittent flashes of light is too long to permit fusion.
Etymology: Middle English flikeren, derived from Old English flicorian - to flutter; cognate with Dutch flikkeren.

395380 ♥ / 7 months ago

79 ♥ / 8 months ago

victoriousvocabulary:

PHOENIX
[noun]
(Greek: Φοίνιξ, Persian: ققنوس, Arabic: العنقاء أو طائر الفينيق, Chinese: 鳳凰 or 不死鳥, Turkish: Tuğrul), Hebrew: פניקס) also phenix – a mythical sacred fire bird that can be found in the mythologies of the Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Turks, Indians and (according to Sanchuniathon) Phoenicians/Canaanites.
It is described as a bird with a colourful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (literally “sun-city” in Greek). It is said that the bird’s cry is that of a beautiful song. The Phoenix’s ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one

298 ♥ / 8 months ago

victoriousvocabulary:

UCALEGON
[noun]
1. one of the Elders of Troy, whose house was set afire by the Achaeans when they sacked the city.
2. a neighbour whose house is on fire.

11600 ♥ / 9 months ago

victoriousvocabulary:

USTULATION
[noun]
the act or process of searing or burning - from Late Latin ustulāre, from Latin ūrere to burn.

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