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DEPHLOGISTICATE

\dɪfləd͡ʒˈɪstɪkˌe͡ɪt], \dɪfləd‍ʒˈɪstɪkˌe‍ɪt], \d_ɪ_f_l_ə_dʒ_ˈɪ_s_t_ɪ_k_ˌeɪ_t]\

Definitions of DEPHLOGISTICATE

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

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de-flo-jis'ti-k[=a]t, v.t. to deprive of phlogiston, once supposed to be the principle of heat.--DEPHLOGISTICATED AIR, the name given by Priestley to oxygen when discovered by him in 1774.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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