Etymology: < *apophlegmatize, < Greek ἀποϕλεγματίζειν to purge away phlegm + -antsuffix1: compare anæsthesiant. (Probably there was modern Latin apophlegmatīzāre, -āntem.)
Medicine. Obsolete.
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1718 Quincy is cited in Johnson
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.Apophlegmatizants are of two kinds, one administred by the way of the mouth..the other given by the nostrils.
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