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

It thus happened that in the earlier treatises on phlogistic chemistry organic substances were grouped with all combustibles.

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

That which preserves vegetable bodies so long from dissolution in water, is what may be called the inflammable or phlogistic composition of those bodies.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James

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

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

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

But the phlogistic chemistry was not yet overthrown.

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