The vital principle; the fire with which Prometheus quickened into life his clay images. (See Prometheus.)
“I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy life relume.”
Shakespeare: Othello, v. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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