Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, to reduce inflammation in.
- To deprive of phlogiston, once supposed to exist as the principle of inflammability. See
phlogiston .
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- verb To take away the
phlogiston , i.e. ability toburn , which is now understood to bechemically impossible
Etymologies
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Examples
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They´ll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable, "because they understand that" votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense. "
American Chronicle 2008
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They'll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable, "because they understand that" votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense. "
Latest Articles 2008
qms commented on the word dephlogisticate
When alchemists come to titivate
Their methods are slow and ornate.
It's never enough
The athanor's snuffed
They also will dephlogisticate.
August 5, 2015
Gammerstang commented on the word dephlogisticate
To make something fireproof
January 8, 2018