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Definition of Phlegmatical
1. Adjective. Showing little emotion. "A phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"
Definition of Phlegmatical
1. a. Phlegmatic.
Definition of Phlegmatical
1. Adjective. phlegmatic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phlegmatical
Literary usage of Phlegmatical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"'Are my books perhaps,' quoth the innkeeper, 'heretical or phlegmatical, that
you would thus roughly handle them?' 'Schismatical, thou shouldst have said,' ..."
2. The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Thomas Shelton (1909)
"'Schis- matical, diou shouldst have said,' quoth the barber, 'and not phlegmatical.'
'It is so,' said the innkeeper; 'but if you will needs burn any, ..."
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