Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phlogisticated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phlo-gis-ti-cat-ed
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing phlogiston.

Obsolete

verb

simple past and past participle of phlogisticate

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From phlogisticate + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: phlogisticate

Usage

Obsolete

Derived Forms

dephlogisticated semiphlogisticated

Phrases

phlogisticated air phlogisticated gas

Frequently Paired Words

phlogisticate

Questions

What does phlogisticated mean?: Containing phlogiston.
Where does phlogisticated come from?: From phlogisticate + -ed.

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