antiphlogistic

American  

[an-tee-floh-jis-tik, an-tahy-] / ˌæn ti floʊˈdʒɪs tɪk, ˌæn taɪ- /

adjective

1. acting against inflammation or fever.

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noun

1. an antiphlogistic agent.

antiphlogistic British  

/ ˌæntɪfləˈdʒɪstɪk /

adjective

1. obsolete of or relating to the prevention or alleviation of inflammation

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noun

1. an antiphlogistic agent or drug

Etymology

Origin of antiphlogistic

First recorded in 1735–45; anti- + phlogistic

Example Sentences

The antiphlogistic chemists regarded fixed air as composed of carbon and dephlogisticated air; the phlogisteans said it was a substance highly charged with phlogiston.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

On the Place he was accosted by the blind man, who, having dragged himself as far as Yonville, in the hope of getting the antiphlogistic pomade, was asking every passer-by where the druggist lived.

From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx

I had only taken animal food about two months after the usual custom, before I had a severe attack, and only escaped an inflammatory fever by the most rigid antiphlogistic treatment.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

The antiphlogistic school said that calx of iron is composed of iron and dephlogisticated air; the phlogisteans said it was iron deprived of its phlogiston.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

Jones had all along insisted that the vapor was antiphlogistic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various