单词 | phlogistic |
释义 | phlogisticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Medicine. Of, relating to, or producing inflammation; inflammatory. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [adjective] scaldedc1450 angryc1500 inflammate1583 inflamed1599 fiery1600 blazed1631 in a flame1658 inflammatory1732 phlogistic1732 angered1753 fretful1804 phlogotic1817 phlogosed1830 phlegmatous1854 inflammablea1862 phlogogenic1881 phlogogenous1890 phlogogenetic1891 stormy1899 1715 J. Delacoste tr. H. Boerhaave Aphorisms 319 And to correct the Defects in the Mouth usual to this Sort, such ought to be made use of, as are Antiphlogistic [L. antiphlogistica], Antiscorbutic, and at the same time peculiarly proper to each particular sort of Scurvy.] 1732 T. Short Hist. Mineral Waters Derbysh., Lincs., & Yorksh. 219 In all inflammatory Diseases from a phlogistic Thickness of the Blood, it's..the most attenuating Salt. 1754–6 Connoisseur No. 53. ⁋9 Blotches and breakings out..owing to a kind of a phlogistic humour in her blood. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 71 Cases of acute or active inflammation preceded by what is called the phlogistic diathesis. 1854 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. (1875) 321 The phlogistic process in the pericardium. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 71 253/2 A phlogistic action was noted on chronic eczematous regions leading to exudation and hyperemia. 1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) 19 Another important consequence of the fixation or activation of complement is the production of various phlogistic (inflammation-producing) factors. 2004 Jrnl. Immunol. 172 349 C5a is the most potent of these phlogistic peptides and is a strong chemoattractant for neutrophils and macrophages/monocytes. 2. Chemistry. Of the nature of or relating to phlogiston; (now rare) containing phlogiston, combustible. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > relating to combustion > relating to phlogiston phlogistic1734 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [adjective] > going on fire > inflammable > as phlogiston phlogistic1734 1734 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 63 The Phlogistic Part [in Phosphorus] is so slightly connected with the other Principles, that the least..Friction or Warmth, sets it on fire. 1774 J. Priestley Exper. & Observ. Air I. 188 Common air..deprived of its fixed air by phlogistic processes. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xxi. 446 Bodies that are eminently luminous..contain a certain species of matter..this is called phlogistic inflammable or combustible matter. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. iii. iv. 300 The phlogistic doctrines of Beccher and Stahl. 1894 Lancet 28 July 197/2 The following chapter shows how the early chemists wandered darkly through the dismal swamp of the phlogistic period. 1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students i. 5 The contrast between the Phlogistic explanation and that of Lavoisier can be clearly shown by expressing, in equation form, the same change, according to both theories. 1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. ii. 83 Stahl's phlogistic principle readily explained the known facts of combustion. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very > burning hot fire-hotOE fieryc1300 ferventa1400 ardentc1440 firous?1504 fervid1599 torrid1611 flamatious1688 flaming1694 phlogistic1777 1777 H. Man Trifler IV. 231 It will soon become a fashion to wear bladders as well as bags [on the nose], every coxcomb in the country will have one, though it be filled with the noxious and phlogistic effluvium, issuing from his own contaminated lungs. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. i. 136 Ethereal Powers! you..Gem the bright Zodiac, stud the glowing pole, Or give the Sun's phlogistic orb to roll. 1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 83 The phlogistic mountains of that neighbourhood. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 407 A sorry imitator of that wholesale dealer in phlogistic curses. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 59 Much phlogistic correspondence was discovered. A phlogistic substance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > going on fire > principle of inflammability phlogistic1734 phlogiston1734 1734 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 61 This red Earth retains so much of an unctious Phlogistic, that [etc.]. 1776 tr. Béardé de l'Abbaye Ess. Agric. 10 Such are light, the subtile matter, the æther, the electrical fire, the magnetical torrent; so many species of phlogistics or fire, Vanhelmont's gas, [etc.]. 1798 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XX. iv. 504 Attendance..on my young patients became the more necessary, as the hot temperatures, and such internal phlogistics, as pure whisky, is generally adopted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1732 |
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