PHILOSOPHISTICAL
PHILOSOPHIS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PHILOSOPHIZE
PHILOS'OPHIZE, verb intransitive [from philosophy.] To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena and assign rational ca...
PHILOSOPHIZING
PHILOS'OPHIZING, participle present tense Searching into the reasons of things; assigning reasons for phenomena.
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOS'OPHY, noun [Latin philosophia; Gr. love, to love, and wisdom.]1. Literally, the love of wisdom. But in modern acceptation, philosophy is a general term denoting an explan...
PHILOSPHATE
PHILOS'PHATE, verb intransitive [Latin philosophor, philosophatus.]To play the philosopher; to moralize. [Not used.]
PHILTER
PHIL'TER, noun [Latin philtra; Gr. to love.]1. A potion intended or adapted to excite love.2. A charm to excite love.PHIL'TER, verb transitive To impregnate with a love-potion; ...
PHIZ
PHIZ, noun [supposed to be a contraction of physiognomy.]The face or visage; in contempt.
PHLEBOTOMIST
PHLEBOT'OMIST, noun [See Phlebotomy.]One that opens a vein for letting blood; a blood-letter.
PHLEBOTOMIZE
PHLEBOT'OMIZE, verb transitive To let blood from a vein.
PHLEBOTOMY
PHLEBOT'OMY, noun [Gr. a vein, and to cut.] The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood for the cure of diseases or preserving health.
PHLEGM
PHLEGMPHLEGMAGOGUE, noun phleg'magog. [Gr. phlegm and to drive.]A term anciently used to denote a medicine supposed to possess the property of expelling phlegm
PHLEGMATIC
PHLEGMAT'IC, adjective [Gr.]1. Abounding in phlegm; as phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.2. Generating phlegm; as phlegmatic meat.3. Watery.4. Cold; dull; sluggish; h...
PHLEGMATICALLY
PHLEGMAT'ICALLY, adverb Coldly; heavily.
PHLEGMON
PHLEG'MON, noun [Gr. to burn.] An external inflammation and tumor, attended with burning heat.
PHLEGMONOUS
PHLEG'MONOUS, adjective Having the nature or properties of a phlegmon; inflammatory; burning; as a phlegmonous tumor.
PHLEM
PHLEM, noun [Gr. inflammation; and pituitous matter, to burn; hence the word must have originally expressed the matter formed by suppuration.]1. Cold animal fluid; water matter;...
PHLEME
PHLEME, noun [See Fleam.]
PHLOGISTIAN
PHLOGIS'TIAN, noun A believer in the existence of phlogiston.
PHLOGISTIC
PHLOGIS'TIC, adjective [See Phlogiston.]Partaking of phlogiston; inflaming.
PHLOGISTICATE
PHLOGIS'TICATE, verb transitive To combine phlogiston with.
PHLOGISTICATION
PHLOGISTICA'TION, noun The act or process of combining with phlogiston.
PHLOGISTON
PHLOGIS'TON, noun [Gr. to burn or inflame.]The principle of inflammability; the matter of fire in composition with other bodies. Stahl gave this name to an element which he supp...
PHOLADITE
PHO'LADITE, noun A petrified shell of the genus Pholas.
PHONICS
PHON'ICS, noun [Gr. sound.] The doctrine or science of sounds; otherwise called acoustics.1. The art of combining musical sounds.
PHONOCAMPTIC
PHONOCAMP'TIC, adjective [Gr. sound, and to inflect.] Having the power to inflect sound, or turn it from its direction, and thus to alter it.
PHONOLITE
PHON'OLITE, noun [Gr. sound, and stone.] Sounding stone; a name proposed as a substitute for klingstein [jingling stone.]
PHONOLOGICAL
PHONOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to phonology.