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

References

• “apophlegmatism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.