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Phlegmatic   /flɛgmˈætɪk/   Listen
adjective
Phlegmatic  adj.  
1.
Watery. (Obs.) "Aqueous and phlegmatic."
2.
Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
3.
Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations."
4.
Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.
Phlegmatic temperament (Old Physiol.), lymphatic temperament. See under Lymphatic.





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"Phlegmatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... cesarevich did not conceal his sympathies with the French. It reappeared in an intermittent fashion during the years 1875-1879, when the Eastern question produced so much excitement in all ranks of Russian society. At first the cesarevich was more Slavophil than the government, but his phlegmatic nature preserved him from many of the exaggerations indulged in by others, and any of the prevalent popular illusions he may have imbibed were soon dispelled by personal observation in Bulgaria, where he commanded ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... of faith. Lady Dorinda, having shut her curtain for the night, declined to take any part in this household festivity, though she contributed some unheard sighs and groans of annoyance during its progress. A phlegmatic woman, fond of her ease, could hardly keep her tranquillity, besieged by cannon in the daytime, and by chattering and laughter, the cracking of nuts and the thump of soldiers' ...
— The Lady of Fort St. John • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... for them both, and they went out, giving Swan a sidelong look of utter bafflement as they passed him. Talking by the thought route from Spirit Canyon to Boise City was evidently a bit too much for even their phlegmatic souls to contemplate ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... white visible, I have often observed both in the timid and phlegmatic, and in the ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various
... gathered upon our fair western plain nations of all the earth. The Italian is there and thinks of "Italia, fair Italia!" The Frenchman sings his "Marsellaise." The solid, phlegmatic German sings his "Die Wacht am Rhein." The Irish sing "Killarney" and "Wearin' the Green"; the Scotchman his "Blue Bells"; the Englishman, "God save the King!"; the American, the "Star-spangled Banner." God bless the patriot, but the ultimate end of all governments ...
— Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence - The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of - Slavery to the Present Time • Various


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