apophlegmatism

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noun

The action of apophlegmatics.

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Meanings

nounapophlegmatism (countable and uncountable, plural apophlegmatisms)

plural apophlegmatisms

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe action of apophlegmatics.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableAn apophlegmatic medicine.

    ...and so it is in apophlegmatisms and gargarisms, that draw the rheum down by the palate

    1620, Francis Bacon, “Natural History”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, vol. III, published 1730
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