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- verb Present participle of
dephlogisticate .
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Examples
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There is, indeed, something wholly chastening and dephlogisticating in the scene, something which makes the joys and tumults of the flesh seem trivial and debasing.
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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"depraved," or "corrupted" by processes of respiration and combustion; he called those processes whereby the atmosphere is restored to its original condition (or "depurated," as he said), "dephlogisticating processes."
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
jmjarmstrong commented on the word dephlogisticating
JM considers dephlogisticating is being a wet blanket
January 5, 2010