a. and sb. [f. ANTIPHLOGIST-ON + -IAN. See ANTI- 3.]
A. adj. Opposed to the theory of ‘phlogiston,’ or the existence of an element of pure fire. B. sb. An opponent of this theory.
1788. Priestley, in Phil. Trans., LXXIX. 15. Sulphur is not that simple substance which the antiphlogistians suppose it to be.
1791. W. Nicholson, Chem., 185. The antiphlogistian philosophers. Ibid. (1795), Dict. Chem., II. 642. The antiphlogistian theory.
1805. Edin. Rev., VI. 102. The antiphlogistians have nothing to dread.
