Definition of Phlogistic

1. a. Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.

Definition of Phlogistic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to phlogiston. ¹

2. Adjective. Containing phlogiston. ¹

3. Adjective. Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phlogistic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Phlogistic

1. 1. Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence. 2. Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phlogistic

phlegmonous ulcer
phlegmons
phlegms
phlegmy
phleme
phleomycin
phleomycins
phleum
phlobaphene
phloem
phloemic
phloemlike
phloems
phlogistian
phlogistians
phlogistic (current term)
phlogistical
phlogistically
phlogisticate
phlogisticated
phlogisticated air
phlogisticates
phlogisticating
phlogistication
phlogistications
phlogistick
phlogiston
phlogiston theory
phlogistonic
phlogistonist

Literary usage of Phlogistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1894)
"These three steps we shall now briefly treat of. CHAPTER IV. DOCTRINE OF ACIDIFICATION AND COMBUSTION.—phlogistic THEORY. PUBLICATION of the Theory by ..."

2. From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition by Robert Siegfried (2002)
"But it was in fact the old phlogiston that Lavoisier attacked and thereby created the "anti-phlogistic doctrine." We may never know how consciously ..."

3. A History of Chemistry from Earliest Times to the Present Day Being Also an by Ernst von Meyer (1906)
"calcination, and who thus came into direct conflict with the phlogistic view, evaded the only correct explanation of this,— and, with it, of the phenomena ..."

4. The Study of Chemical Composition: An Account of Its Method and Historical by Ida Freund (1904)
"But this must not blind us to the very real merits of the phlogistic Theory, and to the enormous services it has rendered in helping the development of ..."

5. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1896)
"phlogistic theory. scientific point of view, the principal defect in this theory was, ... The vague phlogistic theory, which contained a germ of truth, ..."

6. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1907)
"phlogistic theory. SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT. scientific point of view, the principal defect in ... The vague phlogistic theory, which contained a germ of truth, ..."

7. Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature by Samuel Lytler Metcalfe (1843)
"Ixv.) And he tells us, that " the phlogistic diathesis consists in an increased tone ... Besides, if the phlogistic diathesis mean any thing, it is merely a ..."

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