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dephlogisticate

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of phlogiston, once supposed to exist as the principle of inflammability. See phlogiston.
  • In medicine, to reduce inflammation in.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To take away the phlogiston, i.e. ability to burn, which is now understood to be chemically impossible

Etymologies

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From the prefix de-, to undo and phlogisticate, to give flammability to, from French déphlogistiguer, to dephlogisticate.

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Examples

  • 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. "

    American Chronicle 2008

  • 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. "

    Latest Articles 2008

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  • When alchemists come to titivate
    Their methods are slow and ornate.
    It's never enough
    The athanor's snuffed
    They also will dephlogisticate.

    August 5, 2015

  • To make something fireproof

    January 8, 2018