ignis

It was named after the strange phenomenon of light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o-latern.

Halloween Trivia Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008

It was named after the strange phenomenon of light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o-latern.

Archive 2008-10-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008

Hoc cognoscentes, ponebant custodiam ori suo, ut non delinquerent in lingua sua; ideoque concaluit cor earum intra eas, et 'in meditacione earum exarsit ignis (Ps. XXXVIII, 4) ille Dominus Deus noster, consumens omnem rubiginem uiciorum.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Particularly he plays with ignis and lignis, to show how the same elements (elementum also means letter in Latin – in fact the folk etymology derives the Etruscan word “elementum” from L-M-N-tum … say it aloud …) can be common to both fire and wood.

anagrams in america : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

He then plays with particular anagrams to show how, for instance, fire (ignis) could be made of the same elements as wood (lignis).

One Last Anagram from Canada : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Deserted thus by the ignis fatuus of youth, the collapse of the three old people is complete.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Deserted thus by the ignis fatuus of youth, the collapse of the three old people is complete.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

How do you feel towards this fair ignis fatuus, this lily of the desert?

Redgauntlet 2008

Lastly, the metaphysics, ethics, and politics of Aristotle, the frivolous distinctions, barbarous terms, and obscure language of the Schoolmen, taught in the universities (which have been all erected and regulated by the Pope's authority), serve them to keep these errors from being detected, and to make men mistake the ignis fatuus of vain philosophy for the light of the Gospel.

Leviathan 2007

For as [2734] Sennertus contends out of Crato, there is seminarius ignis in this humour, the very seeds of fire.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007