phlogisticated

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English

Etymology

From phlogisticate +‎ -ed.

Adjective

phlogisticated (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, chemistry) Containing phlogiston.
    • 1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E. Ch. II. General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries, in The Life of the Honble Henry Cavendish, p. 39.
      air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.

Derived terms

Verb

phlogisticated

  1. simple past and past participle of phlogisticate