of Phenomenon

An appearance of nature, the cause of which is not immediately obvious; an unusual appearance; something exceedingly rare.

We have to think here of such phenomena as those which are described in Exod. – Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

I have been working on short wave phenomena for some time. – The Black Star Passes by John W Campbell

The problem of drying wood in the best manner divides itself into two distinct parts, one of which is entirely concerned with the behavior of the wood itself and the physical phenomena involved, while the other part has to do with the control of the drying process. – Seasoning of Wood by Joseph B. Wagner

May Heaven grant that you, highly esteemed sir and patron, will take the contents and expression of these lines in good part, and that you will not for a moment doubt that always and in all circumstances I shall look upon you as one of the most sympathetic phenomena that have entered my existence. – Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 by Francis Hueffer (translator)

The most familiar phenomena are often the least understood, and Miss Craven's intelligence was daily baffled by the problem of Audrey. – Audrey Craven by May Sinclair

I think you will agree that the phenomena are very beautiful, and that the subject, commonplace and familiar though it is, has yet proved worthy of an hour's attention. – The Splash of a Drop by A. M. Worthington

Can you explain away, reasonably, on any other grounds than those which I state, the phenomena of My life? – Paradoxes of Catholicism by Robert Hugh Benson

To be sure, he says: " We attribute Personality to the divine Being, because we cannot otherwise refer to any source the phenomena that show Will and Intellect." – Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

The question arises,- In what manner has this set of phenomena originated? – Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by James Buchanan

The senses perceive only qualities, phenomena. – Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

The primary laws and principles once understood, it becomes easy to reason from and to explain through them, the various phenomena which they produce. – Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr

As we continued to study the phenomena that was gradually unfolded beneath us we thought that we could detect in many places evidences of the existence of strong fortifications. – Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

Browning's eye was an instrument made for exact and minute records of natural phenomena. – Robert Browning by Edward Dowden

He had, of course, absorbed the current belief, but he did not hesitate to give his own interpretation and explanation of phenomena. – A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

The qualities of this ether are the possibilities of life and spirit and to it for explanation we refer all psychic phenomena. – Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle

I am only concerned with a series of phenomena, developed through several years, as effects of pressure acting upon a judiciary, exposed as the judiciary, under our system, is exposed. – The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams