Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-PHLO-GIS'TI-CATE
DE-PHLEG'MED-NESSDE-PHLO-GIS'TIC-A-TED
DE-PHLO-GIS'TI-CATE, v.t. [de and Gr. φλογιστος, burnt, inflammable, from φλογιζω, to burn. See Phlogiston.]
To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. – Priestley.
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