| \IG-nis FACH-oo-uh s\ |
noun
1. something deluding or misleading.
2. Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter. |
| Quotes |
We fear that it has deceived many an unwary youth, and seduced him from the more useful occupations of life, where his humble talents might have been serviceably employed, to the hopeless pursuit of an ignis fatuus, which constantly eludes his grasp, and will finally conduct him to indigence and despair.
-- M. A. Shee, "Elements of Art," The Quarterly Review, 1810 |
| Origin |
| Ignis fatuus comes from the Medieval Latin word of the same spelling that literally means "foolish fire." |
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