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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Phlegmatickadjective
Etymology: φλεγματιϰὸς; phlegmatique, Fr. from phlegm.
A neat’s foot,
I fear, is too phlegmatick a meat. William Shakespeare.The putrid vapours, though exciting a fever, do colliquate the phlegmatick humours of the body. Gideon Harvey.
Chewing and smoaking of tobacco is only proper for phlegmatick people. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
Negroes, transplanted into cold and phlegmatick habitations, continue their hue in themselves and generations. Brown.
Spirit of wine is inflammable by means of its oily parts, and being distilled often from salt of tartar, grows by every distillation more and more aqueous and phlegmatick. Newton.
As the inhabitants are of a heavy phlegmatick temper, if any leading member has more fire than comes to his share, it is quickly tempered by the coldness of the rest. Addison.
Who but a husband ever could persuade
His heart to leave the bosom of thy love,
For any phlegmatick design of state. Thomas Southerne.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of phlegmatick in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of phlegmatick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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