phlogistic

[floh-jis-tik]

adjective

Pathology. inflammatory.
pertaining to or consisting of phlogiston.

Origin of phlogistic

1725–35; < Greek phlogist(ós) inflammable (verbid of phlogízein to set on fire; akin to phlox, phlegm) + -ic

Related formspost·phlo·gis·tic, adjective

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Examples from the Web for phlogistic

Historical Examples of phlogistic

The phlogistic theory was destroyed by its own cumbersomeness.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
M. M. Pattison Muir
The weak point of the phlogistic theory was its practical disregard of the phenomena of weight.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900
Various
The phlogistic theory did more than serve as a means for bringing together many apparently disconnected facts.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
M. M. Pattison Muir
In the seventeenth century, Beccher and Stahl, two German chemists, brought forward what is known as the phlogistic hypothesis.
Curiosities of Heat
Lyman B. Tefft
Associated words: phlogistic, phlogogenous, antiphlogistic, demulcent delitescence.
Putnam's Word Book
Louis A. Flemming

British Dictionary definitions for phlogistic

phlogistic

adjective

pathol of inflammation; inflammatory
chem of, concerned with, or containing phlogiston

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