phlegmaticn.adj.

Brit.

/flɛɡˈmatɪk/, U.S.

/flɛɡˈmædɪk/

Forms: Middle English flematik, Middle English flemmatik, Middle English fleugmatic, Middle English fleumatic, Middle English fleumatyk, Middle English flewmatik, Middle English flewmatyk, Middle English flewmatyke, Middle English flewmatykke, Middle English–1500s fleumatik, Middle English–1500s fleumatike, Middle English–1500s fleumatyke, Middle English–1500s fleumetyke, Middle English–1500s flewmatike, Middle English–1600s flegmatike, 1500s fleamaticke, 1500s fleamatik, 1500s fleamatike, 1500s fleamtike, 1500s flegmatyck, 1500s flegmatyke, 1500s flematike, 1500s flematycke, 1500s flemytycke, 1500s fleumatick, 1500s fleumaticke, 1500s fleumatycke, 1500s fleumatyque, 1500s flowmatyke, 1500s flugmatike, 1500s flumaticke, 1500s flumatik, 1500s flumatike, 1500s flumatyke, 1500s flumatyque, 1500s–1600s flegmaticke, 1500s–1600s phlegmaticke, 1500s–1600s phlegmatike, 1500s–1700s flegmatic, 1500s–1700s flegmatick, 1500s–1800s phlegmatick, 1600s phlegmatique, 1700s– phlegmatic; Scottish pre-1700 flegmatic, pre-1700 flematyke, pre-1700 flemmatyk, 1700s– phlegmatic. N.E.D. (1906) also records forms of the base Middle English flum-, 1600s flugm-, and forms of the ending Middle English -ytycke, Middle English–1500s -ytek, Middle English–1500s -ytyck.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French fleumatic, fleumatik, fleumatike; Latin phlegmaticus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman fleumaticfleumatikfleumatike, Anglo-Norman and Middle French fleumatique, Middle French fleumatique, fleugmatique, flematique, flegmatique (French flegmatique , phlegmatique ) relating to or producing phlegm, having a preponderance of phlegm (c1210 in Old French), calm, phlegmatic (1674) and its etymon post-classical Latin phlegmaticus relating to phlegm, consisting of or containing phlegm, characterized by an excess of phlegm (from 4th cent., chiefly in medical writers) < Hellenistic Greek ϕλεγματικός characterized by an excess of phlegm < ancient Greek ϕλεγματ- , ϕλέγμα phlegm n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Old Occitan flecmatic (c1240), Catalan fleumàtic (13th cent.; also as flemàtic), Spanish flematico (c1275; also as †flegmatico, †fleumatico), Portuguese flegmatico, fleumatico (15th cent. as fleumatico), Italian flemmatico (1288 or earlier; also as flegmatico).With use as noun (see sense A.) compare Middle French fleumatique, etc. (14th cent.; French phlegmatique) and early modern German flegmaticus (1528; German Phlegmaticus).

A. n.

1. A person in whose body there is an excess of phlegm; a person with the temperament formerly believed to result from a predominance of phlegm among the bodily humours; a phlegmatic person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > one who

phlegmatic?1541

drumble1568

log1579

phlegmatist1599

lethargy1634

mooner1842

slowie1901

Oblomov1903

walking dead1980

the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [noun] > phlegmatic quality or disposition > phlegmatic person

phlegmatic?1541

phlegmatist1599

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 157 (MED) Þe dyeuel yziȝþ..his complexioun and to huet vice he ys mest bouȝinde..þane fleumatike mid glotonye and be sleauþe.

?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 7 (MED) Hit is not gode to him that haþe myche of gall, but..hit is gode and holsome to þe flewmatike.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 220 (MED) The fleumatyke by kynde he sholde be slowe, sadde, ful stille, and Slowe of answere.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Miij The fleumatykes, & them that are wont to diseases of colde maladyes.

1629 J. Maxwell tr. Herodian Hist. 100 He contemned Iulian, as an abject Fellow: and Niger as a dull Flegmaticke.

1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 113 The Phlegmaticks are those the French call properly Des Apathicks, without passion or insensible.

1744 B. Lynch Guide to Health 177 It is very plain that it must be pernicious to hot, dry, and bilious Constitutions, and only beneficial to Phlegmaticks.

1810 P. Stockdale Amyntas in Poet. Wks. II. ii. ii. 51 Come; you're a phlegmatick, a gloomy reasoner.

1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxvii. 153 There were girls like her in Madame Beck's school—phlegmatics—pale, slow, inert.

1884 Mind 9 204 He was tranquil, and had on the whole the temperament of a phlegmatic.

1979 P. O'Brian Fortune of War ii. 67 The instinct so very strong, so very nearly unconquerable even in a phlegmatic.

1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 37 Tenets most colonials assumed to be true, namely that Indians were slow-witted phlegmatics who needed to be forced to work.

2. With plural agreement. With the. Phlegmatic people as a class.

ΚΠ

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 139 The flegmaticke vnincensed, haue their braine very cold and moist.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 95 They are..hurtfull to the phlegmaticke..and them that are straight chested.

1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 180 The Phlegmatick and Fat should Watch much.

1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor V. ii. 35 I do not deem them entirely romantic, but share in that which the phlegmatic would call the frenzy of your mind.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. viii. 144 If she danced at parties, she would scatter the fits of despondency besetting the phlegmatic.

1968 Times 1 Apr. 6 The warmth of human emotion and the sharing of understanding have an appeal which should oust the phlegmatic and the orthodox.

B. adj.

a. Designating, relating to, or producing phlegm (phlegm n. 1a, 1b); having a predominance of phlegm; characterized or caused by an excess of phlegm. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge > catarrh

phlegmatica1398

rheumatic?a1425

catarrhal1651

gastro-catarrhal1833

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 75 Peper is remedie to some fleumatik man & venym to som colerik.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 247 It purgeth wonderliche fleumatik humour.

c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 216 (MED) Onyons ben gode for flemmatik men.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 87 (MED) Yf þe sonne and þe mone bothe be yn tokenynge fleumatyk, lightly þe medicyn takere shal forth lede.

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Fij To spette and putte oute the flegmatyke matter.

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 3^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Hony..is good in the meates of them whiche be Flugmatike.

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 83^v In phlegmaticke bodyes they maye forbeare their supper.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 946 It containeth the Pituitary or Phlegmaticke Glandule.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 226 In a Phlegmatick Ague, which the Arabians call Latick, or Latent.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Apophlegmatick Medicine Medicines..that have the faculty to purge the head and brain of cold phlegmatick humours by the nose, mouth, etc.

1741 W. Oldys et al. Betterton's Hist. Eng. Stage v. 63 Persons of a flegmatic Constitution are slow in turning of their Eyes.

1836 A. Walker Beauty in Woman 202 The ancients classed individuals in one or other of four temperaments, founded on the hypothesis of four humours,..the red part [of the blood], phlegm, yellow, and black bile... Hence were derived the names of the sanguine, the phlegmatic, the choleric, and the melancholic temperaments.

1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 85 The sanguineous tissues are the fatty tissues and the parenchymatous, the latter being either properly sanguineous, such as the heart, lungs, kidney and liver, or phlegmatic, such as the testicle, the pancreas and some other glands.

1998 Renaissance No. 11. 18/2 Medieval weather theory held that with the coming of spring, any excess phlegmatic humor in the body had to be cleared away to bring the body back into balance.

†b. Of the nature of or abounding in the principle of matter called phlegm (or phlegma) (phlegm n. 2); watery and insipid. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective] > water or phlegm

phlegmaticc1503

phlegmed1684

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective]

rheumatica1398

phlegmy?c1425

phlegmaticc1503

mucous1578

pituitous1578

rheumy1583

phlegmatical1586

pituous1617

pituitose1710

mucoid1849

mucoidal1849

myxoid1890

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxv^v/2 For as mych as all fisshes aftir water ben flewmatike therfore they be better rost than sosen.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 2 b Where colde with moysture preuayleth, that body is called Fleumatike, wherein water hath preeminence.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 77 She [sc. the Carp] is of very soft flesh and phlegmatike.

1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. i. 5 Standing Waters..by reason of the constant waste of the Phlegmatique vapour that constantly rises from it.

1748 Croonean Lect. 4 in Philos. Trans. 1747 (Royal Soc.) 44 The watery or phlegmatic Principle abounds so much as to be nearly ¹³/ ₁₆ Parts of the whole Mass.

2. Having, showing, or characteristic of the temperament formerly believed to result from a predominance of phlegm among the bodily humours; not easily excited to feeling or action; stolidly calm, self-possessed, imperturbable; (with pejorative connotation) sluggish, apathetic, lacking enthusiasm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective]

unlustyc1225

sleepyc1384

phlegmatica1400

listlessc1440

owlist1440

unlisty1440

phlegmyc1450

sweyntc1450

supine1554

resty1565

unactive1591

sleepy-headed1600

log-like1602

inertious1611

stupefied?1611

lethargic1612

sedentary1625

torpent1647

torpid1656

torpulent1657

softly1664

inert1774

vegetative1789

spiritless1798

unenergetic1805

sloomy1820

slow-going1825

inenergetic1826

comatose1828

moony1847

mooning1864

torpid-minded1909

narcoleptic1965

vegged1986

the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adjective] > phlegmatic

phlegmatica1400

phlegmyc1450

sprightlessa1522

spiritless1595

unspirited1621

inexcitable?1624

pituitous1658

slow-going1825

soggy1896

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [adjective] > humours > specific

moista1393

cholerica1398

melancholya1398

radicala1398

sanguinea1398

adusta1400

phlegmatica1400

adusted1547

phlegmatical1586

humid1604

sanguineous1732

a1400 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 71 (MED) Dull of wit, & fatt, of contnaunc strange, fflewmatyke, þis complecion may not change.

1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 47 The Neumantians of their natural condition, were more flegmatik then colorick.

1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iv. sig. H4^v Cold, Phlegmatike Bastard, th'art no brat of mine.

a1676 M. Hale Disc. Provis. for Poor (1683) Pref. sig. A3 Necessity renders men of Phlegmatique and dull natures stupid and indisciplinable.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub vi. 131 Martin, who at this Time happened to be extremely flegmatick and sedate, begged his Brother..not to damage his Coat.

1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. v. 266 Raphäel never received a more flegmatic elogy.

1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. iv. 248 Cold and phlegmatic must he be who is not warmed into admiration by the surrounding scenery.

1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. iv. 33 Selina resumed her knitting in a most phlegmatic manner.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxx. 130 No sign of astonishment appeared on Emil's phlegmatic face.

1991 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 1 Dec. 12/2 She has the robust air of a true countrywoman, phlegmatic, pragmatic, aware that sooner or later, nature, or life, will kick you in the teeth.

Derivatives

phlegˈmaticly adv. rare = phlegmatically adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adverb]

unlustilyc1390

supinely1605

supine1615

lethargically1633

unlustly1649

phlegmatically1673

phlegmaticly1673

listlessly1693

davielya1796

sloomy1820

torpidly1820

moonily1887

mooningly1893

the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adverb] > in phlegmatic manner

spiritlessly1669

phlegmatically1673

phlegmaticly1673

torpidly1820

soggily1939

1673 S'too him Bayes 56 This is..so hal'd in, and so phlegmatickly apply'd.

1776 H. Walpole Let. in Wks. (1798) V. 650 I think this resistance of the parliament..is more phlegmaticly scandalous than the wildest tyranny of despotism.

1999 Re: I did it in alt.support.srs (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Sept. When I show up at the local [American Legion] Hall and order a Pink Lady, will..they just phlegmaticly serve me and enquire if I shoot pool?

phlegˈmaticness n. rare the state or quality of being phlegmatic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun]

accidiaOE

accidie?c1225

lethargyc1380

faintness1398

lithernessc1425

listlesshedec1440

owlisthead1440

supinity1548

lustlessness1556

benumbedness1566

phlegm1578

apoplexy1589

acedia1607

torpor1607

drowsiness1611

torpidity1614

languishmentc1620

hebetude1621

acedy1623

inerty1623

supineness1640

listlessness1646

cadaveriety1651

inertitude1656

oscitation1656

torpulency1657

sopor1658

phlegmaticness1659

lethargicalness1664

torpidnessa1676

faineantisea1684

phlegmatism1688

vis inertiae1710

torpitude1713

moonery1764

donothingness1814

benumbment1817

inertia1821

languor1825

donothingism1839

Mondayishness1850

mooniness1852

mooning1857

fainéantisme1873

sog1874

Oblomovism1902

the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [noun] > phlegmatic quality or disposition

phlegm1578

phlegmaticness1659

phlegmatism1688

1659 O. Feltham Char. Low Countries (new ed.) 42 Being full of humours, that is her cradle, which luls and rocks her to a dull phlegmatickness.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Pituitousness,..phlegmatickness.

1951 Phylon 12 337 A matter of an attitude of stolidness and phlegmaticness as over against cheerfulness and the capacity to enjoy life.

1997 Times (Nexis) 3 June This sort of phlegmaticness was not in evidence..at those companies earmarked for privatisation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	phlegmatic
释义	phlegmaticn.adj. Brit. /flɛɡˈmatɪk/, U.S. /flɛɡˈmædɪk/ Forms: Middle English flematik, Middle English flemmatik, Middle English fleugmatic, Middle English fleumatic, Middle English fleumatyk, Middle English flewmatik, Middle English flewmatyk, Middle English flewmatyke, Middle English flewmatykke, Middle English–1500s fleumatik, Middle English–1500s fleumatike, Middle English–1500s fleumatyke, Middle English–1500s fleumetyke, Middle English–1500s flewmatike, Middle English–1600s flegmatike, 1500s fleamaticke, 1500s fleamatik, 1500s fleamatike, 1500s fleamtike, 1500s flegmatyck, 1500s flegmatyke, 1500s flematike, 1500s flematycke, 1500s flemytycke, 1500s fleumatick, 1500s fleumaticke, 1500s fleumatycke, 1500s fleumatyque, 1500s flowmatyke, 1500s flugmatike, 1500s flumaticke, 1500s flumatik, 1500s flumatike, 1500s flumatyke, 1500s flumatyque, 1500s–1600s flegmaticke, 1500s–1600s phlegmaticke, 1500s–1600s phlegmatike, 1500s–1700s flegmatic, 1500s–1700s flegmatick, 1500s–1800s phlegmatick, 1600s phlegmatique, 1700s– phlegmatic; Scottish pre-1700 flegmatic, pre-1700 flematyke, pre-1700 flemmatyk, 1700s– phlegmatic. N.E.D. (1906) also records forms of the base Middle English flum-, 1600s flugm-, and forms of the ending Middle English -ytycke, Middle English–1500s -ytek, Middle English–1500s -ytyck. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French fleumatic, fleumatik, fleumatike; Latin phlegmaticus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman fleumaticfleumatikfleumatike, Anglo-Norman and Middle French fleumatique, Middle French fleumatique, fleugmatique, flematique, flegmatique (French flegmatique , phlegmatique ) relating to or producing phlegm, having a preponderance of phlegm (c1210 in Old French), calm, phlegmatic (1674) and its etymon post-classical Latin phlegmaticus relating to phlegm, consisting of or containing phlegm, characterized by an excess of phlegm (from 4th cent., chiefly in medical writers) < Hellenistic Greek ϕλεγματικός characterized by an excess of phlegm < ancient Greek ϕλεγματ- , ϕλέγμα phlegm n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Old Occitan flecmatic (c1240), Catalan fleumàtic (13th cent.; also as flemàtic), Spanish flematico (c1275; also as †flegmatico, †fleumatico), Portuguese flegmatico, fleumatico (15th cent. as fleumatico), Italian flemmatico (1288 or earlier; also as flegmatico).With use as noun (see sense A.) compare Middle French fleumatique, etc. (14th cent.; French phlegmatique) and early modern German flegmaticus (1528; German Phlegmaticus). A. n. 1. A person in whose body there is an excess of phlegm; a person with the temperament formerly believed to result from a predominance of phlegm among the bodily humours; a phlegmatic person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > one who phlegmatic?1541 drumble1568 log1579 phlegmatist1599 lethargy1634 mooner1842 slowie1901 Oblomov1903 walking dead1980 the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [noun] > phlegmatic quality or disposition > phlegmatic person phlegmatic?1541 phlegmatist1599 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 157 (MED) Þe dyeuel yziȝþ..his complexioun and to huet vice he ys mest bouȝinde..þane fleumatike mid glotonye and be sleauþe. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 7 (MED) Hit is not gode to him that haþe myche of gall, but..hit is gode and holsome to þe flewmatike. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 220 (MED) The fleumatyke by kynde he sholde be slowe, sadde, ful stille, and Slowe of answere. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Miij The fleumatykes, & them that are wont to diseases of colde maladyes. 1629 J. Maxwell tr. Herodian Hist. 100 He contemned Iulian, as an abject Fellow: and Niger as a dull Flegmaticke. 1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 113 The Phlegmaticks are those the French call properly Des Apathicks, without passion or insensible. 1744 B. Lynch Guide to Health 177 It is very plain that it must be pernicious to hot, dry, and bilious Constitutions, and only beneficial to Phlegmaticks. 1810 P. Stockdale Amyntas in Poet. Wks. II. ii. ii. 51 Come; you're a phlegmatick, a gloomy reasoner. 1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxvii. 153 There were girls like her in Madame Beck's school—phlegmatics—pale, slow, inert. 1884 Mind 9 204 He was tranquil, and had on the whole the temperament of a phlegmatic. 1979 P. O'Brian Fortune of War ii. 67 The instinct so very strong, so very nearly unconquerable even in a phlegmatic. 1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 37 Tenets most colonials assumed to be true, namely that Indians were slow-witted phlegmatics who needed to be forced to work. 2. With plural agreement. With the. Phlegmatic people as a class. ΚΠ 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 139 The flegmaticke vnincensed, haue their braine very cold and moist. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 95 They are..hurtfull to the phlegmaticke..and them that are straight chested. 1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 180 The Phlegmatick and Fat should Watch much. 1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor V. ii. 35 I do not deem them entirely romantic, but share in that which the phlegmatic would call the frenzy of your mind. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. viii. 144 If she danced at parties, she would scatter the fits of despondency besetting the phlegmatic. 1968 Times 1 Apr. 6 The warmth of human emotion and the sharing of understanding have an appeal which should oust the phlegmatic and the orthodox. B. adj. 1. a. Designating, relating to, or producing phlegm (phlegm n. 1a, 1b); having a predominance of phlegm; characterized or caused by an excess of phlegm. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge > catarrh phlegmatica1398 rheumatic?a1425 catarrhal1651 gastro-catarrhal1833 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 75 Peper is remedie to some fleumatik man & venym to som colerik. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 247 It purgeth wonderliche fleumatik humour. c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 216 (MED) Onyons ben gode for flemmatik men. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 87 (MED) Yf þe sonne and þe mone bothe be yn tokenynge fleumatyk, lightly þe medicyn takere shal forth lede. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Fij To spette and putte oute the flegmatyke matter. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 3^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Hony..is good in the meates of them whiche be Flugmatike. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 83^v In phlegmaticke bodyes they maye forbeare their supper. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 946 It containeth the Pituitary or Phlegmaticke Glandule. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 226 In a Phlegmatick Ague, which the Arabians call Latick, or Latent. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Apophlegmatick Medicine Medicines..that have the faculty to purge the head and brain of cold phlegmatick humours by the nose, mouth, etc. 1741 W. Oldys et al. Betterton's Hist. Eng. Stage v. 63 Persons of a flegmatic Constitution are slow in turning of their Eyes. 1836 A. Walker Beauty in Woman 202 The ancients classed individuals in one or other of four temperaments, founded on the hypothesis of four humours,..the red part [of the blood], phlegm, yellow, and black bile... Hence were derived the names of the sanguine, the phlegmatic, the choleric, and the melancholic temperaments. 1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 85 The sanguineous tissues are the fatty tissues and the parenchymatous, the latter being either properly sanguineous, such as the heart, lungs, kidney and liver, or phlegmatic, such as the testicle, the pancreas and some other glands. 1998 Renaissance No. 11. 18/2 Medieval weather theory held that with the coming of spring, any excess phlegmatic humor in the body had to be cleared away to bring the body back into balance. †b. Of the nature of or abounding in the principle of matter called phlegm (or phlegma) (phlegm n. 2); watery and insipid. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective] > water or phlegm phlegmaticc1503 phlegmed1684 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective] rheumatica1398 phlegmy?c1425 phlegmaticc1503 mucous1578 pituitous1578 rheumy1583 phlegmatical1586 pituous1617 pituitose1710 mucoid1849 mucoidal1849 myxoid1890 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxv^v/2 For as mych as all fisshes aftir water ben flewmatike therfore they be better rost than sosen. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 2 b Where colde with moysture preuayleth, that body is called Fleumatike, wherein water hath preeminence. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 77 She [sc. the Carp] is of very soft flesh and phlegmatike. 1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. i. 5 Standing Waters..by reason of the constant waste of the Phlegmatique vapour that constantly rises from it. 1748 Croonean Lect. 4 in Philos. Trans. 1747 (Royal Soc.) 44 The watery or phlegmatic Principle abounds so much as to be nearly ¹³/ ₁₆ Parts of the whole Mass. 2. Having, showing, or characteristic of the temperament formerly believed to result from a predominance of phlegm among the bodily humours; not easily excited to feeling or action; stolidly calm, self-possessed, imperturbable; (with pejorative connotation) sluggish, apathetic, lacking enthusiasm. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] unlustyc1225 sleepyc1384 phlegmatica1400 listlessc1440 owlist1440 unlisty1440 phlegmyc1450 sweyntc1450 supine1554 resty1565 unactive1591 sleepy-headed1600 log-like1602 inertious1611 stupefied?1611 lethargic1612 sedentary1625 torpent1647 torpid1656 torpulent1657 softly1664 inert1774 vegetative1789 spiritless1798 unenergetic1805 sloomy1820 slow-going1825 inenergetic1826 comatose1828 moony1847 mooning1864 torpid-minded1909 narcoleptic1965 vegged1986 the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adjective] > phlegmatic phlegmatica1400 phlegmyc1450 sprightlessa1522 spiritless1595 unspirited1621 inexcitable?1624 pituitous1658 slow-going1825 soggy1896 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [adjective] > humours > specific moista1393 cholerica1398 melancholya1398 radicala1398 sanguinea1398 adusta1400 phlegmatica1400 adusted1547 phlegmatical1586 humid1604 sanguineous1732 a1400 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 71 (MED) Dull of wit, & fatt, of contnaunc strange, fflewmatyke, þis complecion may not change. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 47 The Neumantians of their natural condition, were more flegmatik then colorick. 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iv. sig. H4^v Cold, Phlegmatike Bastard, th'art no brat of mine. a1676 M. Hale Disc. Provis. for Poor (1683) Pref. sig. A3 Necessity renders men of Phlegmatique and dull natures stupid and indisciplinable. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub vi. 131 Martin, who at this Time happened to be extremely flegmatick and sedate, begged his Brother..not to damage his Coat. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. v. 266 Raphäel never received a more flegmatic elogy. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. iv. 248 Cold and phlegmatic must he be who is not warmed into admiration by the surrounding scenery. 1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. iv. 33 Selina resumed her knitting in a most phlegmatic manner. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxx. 130 No sign of astonishment appeared on Emil's phlegmatic face. 1991 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 1 Dec. 12/2 She has the robust air of a true countrywoman, phlegmatic, pragmatic, aware that sooner or later, nature, or life, will kick you in the teeth. Derivatives phlegˈmaticly adv. rare = phlegmatically adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adverb] unlustilyc1390 supinely1605 supine1615 lethargically1633 unlustly1649 phlegmatically1673 phlegmaticly1673 listlessly1693 davielya1796 sloomy1820 torpidly1820 moonily1887 mooningly1893 the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adverb] > in phlegmatic manner spiritlessly1669 phlegmatically1673 phlegmaticly1673 torpidly1820 soggily1939 1673 S'too him Bayes 56 This is..so hal'd in, and so phlegmatickly apply'd. 1776 H. Walpole Let. in Wks. (1798) V. 650 I think this resistance of the parliament..is more phlegmaticly scandalous than the wildest tyranny of despotism. 1999 Re: I did it in alt.support.srs (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Sept. When I show up at the local [American Legion] Hall and order a Pink Lady, will..they just phlegmaticly serve me and enquire if I shoot pool? phlegˈmaticness n. rare the state or quality of being phlegmatic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] accidiaOE accidie?c1225 lethargyc1380 faintness1398 lithernessc1425 listlesshedec1440 owlisthead1440 supinity1548 lustlessness1556 benumbedness1566 phlegm1578 apoplexy1589 acedia1607 torpor1607 drowsiness1611 torpidity1614 languishmentc1620 hebetude1621 acedy1623 inerty1623 supineness1640 listlessness1646 cadaveriety1651 inertitude1656 oscitation1656 torpulency1657 sopor1658 phlegmaticness1659 lethargicalness1664 torpidnessa1676 faineantisea1684 phlegmatism1688 vis inertiae1710 torpitude1713 moonery1764 donothingness1814 benumbment1817 inertia1821 languor1825 donothingism1839 Mondayishness1850 mooniness1852 mooning1857 fainéantisme1873 sog1874 Oblomovism1902 the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [noun] > phlegmatic quality or disposition phlegm1578 phlegmaticness1659 phlegmatism1688 1659 O. Feltham Char. Low Countries (new ed.) 42 Being full of humours, that is her cradle, which luls and rocks her to a dull phlegmatickness. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Pituitousness,..phlegmatickness. 1951 Phylon 12 337 A matter of an attitude of stolidness and phlegmaticness as over against cheerfulness and the capacity to enjoy life. 1997 Times (Nexis) 3 June This sort of phlegmaticness was not in evidence..at those companies earmarked for privatisation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1340
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