dephlogisticate
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- null To deprive of phlogiston, once supposed to exist as the principle of inflammability.
- null In medicine, to reduce inflammation in.
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. "
Note
The word 'dephlogisticate' comes from the prefix de-, 'to undo' and 'phlogisticate', 'to give flammability to', from French 'déphlogistiguer', to dephlogisticate.
