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- adjective Archaic form of
phlegmatic .
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatick Preachers, Politicians,
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Sky-colour, otherwise it is a waterish Spirit, cold and moist, not so hot in its degree as that which is found in _Gold_, _Mars_, and _Venus_; for _Luna_ is more phlegmatick than fiery, though it be brought by the
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Champaign-fields, whose Earths are constantly rested every third Year called the Fallow-season, in order to discharge their crude, phlegmatick and sour property, by the several turnings that the Plough gives them part of a Winter and one whole Summer, which exposes the rough, clotty loose parts of the Ground, and by degrees brings them into a condition of making
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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Apples directly off the Tree, that never sweated out their phlegmatick crude juice in the heap, cannot produce a natural Liquor from such unnatural management; for barley certainly is not fit to make Malt of until it is fully mellowed and sweated in the Mow, and the Season of the
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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"They be naught," says Gerard, "for those that be cholericke; but good for such as are replete with raw and phlegmatick humors."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Against all this it may be objected, That these are Laws which none but phlegmatick Writers will observe, and only Men of Eminence should give.
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The spirits of youth sublimed by health, and volatilized by passion, soon leave behind them the phlegmatick sediment of weariness and deliberation, and burst out in temerity and enterprise.
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As by the cultivation of various sciences, a language is amplified, it will be more furnished with words deflected from their original sense; the geometrician will talk of a "courtier's zenith, or the eccentrick virtue of a wild hero;" and the physician of "sanguine expectations and phlegmatick delays."
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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_ Sir _Harry_, what Diversions are a-foot; but _England_ is so phlegmatick a Climate, no Carnivals, nor Midnight-Masquerades, but Two and fifty Days lost ev'ry Year for want of Balls and Operas on a _Sunday_.
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704
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In short, we often see Men of dull and phlegmatick Tempers, arriving to great Estates, by making a regular and orderly Disposition of their
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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