apophlegmatism

English

Noun

apophlegmatism (countable and uncountable, plural apophlegmatisms)

1. (obsolete) The action of apophlegmatics.
2. (obsolete) An apophlegmatic medicine.
   • 1620, Francis Bacon, “Natural History”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, vol. III‎^[1], published 1730:

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “apophlegmatism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)