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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Phlegmatic  \Phleg*mat"ic\,  a.  [L.  phlegmaticus  Gr  ?:  cf  F. 
  phlegmatique.] 
  1.  Watery.  [Obs.]  ``Aqueous  and  phlegmatic.''  --Sir  I. 
  Newton. 
 
  2.  Abounding  in  phlegm;  as  phlegmatic  humors;  a  phlegmatic 
  constitution.  --Harvey. 
 
  3.  Generating  or  causing  phlegm.  ``Cold  and  phlegmatic 
  habitations.''  --Sir  T.  Browne. 
 
  4.  Not  easily  excited  to  action  or  passion;  cold;  dull; 
  sluggish;  heavy;  as  a  phlegmatic  person.  --Addison. 
 
  {Phlegmatic  temperament}  (Old  Physiol.),  lymphatic 
  temperament.  See  under  {Lymphatic}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  phlegmatic 
  adj  :  showing  little  emotion;  "a  phlegmatic...and  certainly 
  undemonstrative  man"  [syn:  {phlegmatical}] 




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