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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An opponent of the old chemical theory as to the existence of a substance called phlogiston.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.
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- noun One who opposes the
theory ofphlogiston .
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anti- + phlogistian
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