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phlogisticated

phlogisticated adjective: containing phlogiston. Also the simple past and past participle of phlogisticate.

Adjective

phlogisticated (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Containing phlogiston.
    • […] 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.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.

Also used as

phlogisticated is also the simple past and past participle of phlogisticate.

Origin of phlogisticated

From phlogisticate + -ed.

Words formed from phlogisticated

Questions about phlogisticated

What does phlogisticated mean?
Phlogisticated means containing phlogiston.
What part of speech is phlogisticated?
Phlogisticated is an adjective.

Words near phlogisticated in the dictionary

  1. phlogistians
  2. phlogistic
  3. phlogistical
  4. phlogistically
  5. phlogisticate
  6. phlogisticated
  7. phlogisticated air
  8. phlogisticates
  9. phlogisticating
  10. phlogistication
  11. phlogistications

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