phlogisticated

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
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