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

The circulating fluids are capable of being vitiated by acescent or putrid ferments, the former acting on the serum, and causing critical fevers; the latter on the crassamentum, and exciting phlogistic diseases.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

According to the phlogistic theory, the part remaining after a substance was burned was simply the original substance deprived of phlogiston.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

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

During the phlogistic period, the detection of the constituents of compounds was considerably developed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various