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单词 dephlogisticate
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dephlogisticatev.

Etymology: < de- prefix 2a + phlogisticate v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: dephloˈgisticate.
1. transitive. Old Chemistry. To deprive of phlogiston (the supposed principle of inflammability in bodies).
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the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > alchemical substances or theories [verb (transitive)] > to deprive of phlogiston
dephlogisticate1779
1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 441 The power..of dephlogisticating common air.
1782 Kirwan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 212 The nitrous acid..is well known to dephlogisticate metals as perfectly as possible.
1788 Cavendish in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 270 We suppose that the air..was intirely dephlogisticated.
2. To relieve of inflammation. (Cf. antiphlogistic adj. 1.)
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment of specific diseases or conditions > treat specific diseases or conditions [verb (transitive)] > relieve inflammation
dephlogisticate1842
1842 Fraser's Mag. 26 452 The sheriffs..were fundamentally phlebotomised and dephlogisticated by the fragments of their own swords.
1875 A. Geikie Life Sir R. Murchison I. 142 Given to water-drinking and dephlogisticating.

Derivatives

dephloˈgisticated adj.
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the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [adjective] > phlogiston > deprived of
dephlogisticated1784
dephlogistic1787
1784 H. Cavendish in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 141 There is the utmost reason to think, that dephlogisticated and phlogisticated air (as M. Lavoisier and Scheele suppose) are quite distinct substances, and not differing only in their degree of phlogistication; and that common air is a mixture of the two.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. i. 7 Oxygenated (dephlogisticated) muriatic acid.
dephlogisticated air n. the name given to oxygen by Priestley, who, on its first discovery, supposed it to be ordinary air deprived of phlogiston).
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > oxygen > [noun]
dephlogisticated air1775
empyreal air1780
oxygen1788
oxygen gas1788
vital air1791
oxygenous gas1794
oxygen air1796
O1813
1775 Priestley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 387 This species may not improperly be called, dephlogisticated air. This species of air I first produced from mercurius calcinatus per se.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon Concl. 459 Vegetables..again in turn, and during the day-time, exhale and breathe forth that pure dephlogisticated air, so essential to the support of animal existence.
dephlogisticated nitrous air n. Obsolete (Priestley's name for) nitrous oxide.
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1789 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 70 This salt, heated in close vessels, yields dephlogisticated nitrous air in great abundance.
1844 N. Brit. Rev. Nov. 61 He wished to inhale Priestley's dep [h] logisticated nitrous air, in order to put to the test a foolish conjecture of one Mitchell, an American, that it is a principle of contagion endowed with extraordinary power.
dephlogisticating adj.
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1789 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 146 The dephlogisticating principle.
dephloˌgistiˈcation n.
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1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 86 From the greater, or less dephlogistication of the ores, or the stones in which it is contained.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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