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1. Watery. "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.
<physiology> Phlegmatic temperament, lymphatic temperament. See Lymphatic.
Origin: L. Phlegmaticus, Gr., cf. F. Phlegmatique.
(01 Mar 1998)
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