phlogistic

American  

[floh-jis-tik] / floʊˈdʒɪs tɪk /

adjective

1. Pathology. inflammatory.

2. pertaining to or consisting of phlogiston.

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phlogistic British  

/ flɒˈdʒɪstɪk /

adjective

1. pathol of inflammation; inflammatory

2. chem of, concerned with, or containing phlogiston

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Other Word Forms

• postphlogistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of phlogistic

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

Example Sentences

I do not find any evidence that Hales was influenced by the phlogistic writers, and this is comprehensible enough, if, as I think, he belongs to the school of Mayow and Boyle.

From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Respect the character of your auditors; and, above all things, have mercy upon the phlogistic imagination of Lisardo!

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Chemistry existed at first only in a childish, phlogistic form.

From Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy by Lewis, Austin

The phlogistic theory, which had tyrannized over chemistry, had been succeeded by the Lavoisierian chemistry, which recognized one acidifier, and this also the one supporter of combustion.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

From all these analogies I think there can be no doubt but that leaves of trees are their lungs, giving out a phlogistic material to the atmosphere, and absorbing oxygene or vital air.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus