phlogistonistn.
/flə(ʊ)ˈdʒɪstənɪst/, U.S. /fləˈdʒɪstənəst/, /floʊˈdʒɪstənəst/ History of Science.
A believer in the theory of phlogiston.
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1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 847 Within the field of names it should only comprehend what Stahl and the phlogistonists understand by them.
1925 Glasgow Herald 30 Jan. 5 The second fact neglected by the phlogistonists was that a substance will not burn in absence of air, and only to a limited extent in an enclosed space.
1988 New Scientist 22 Oct. 77/4 If one regards phlogiston as a rather vague qualitative 18th-century idea of energy, much of what phlogistonists wrote would still be regarded as true.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- recertification
- recertifications
- recertified
- recertifies
- recertify
- recertifying
- recess
- recess bed
- recess curtain
- recess period
- recess printing
- recess time
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- recessed
- recesses
- recessful
- recessfully
- recessing
- recession
- recession buster
- recession of the equinoxes
- recession velocity
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- recessional