Philosophizer Phi·los"o·phi`zer noun One who philosophizes.

Philosophy Phi·los"o·phy noun ; plural Philosophies . [ Middle English philosophie , French philosophie , Latin philosophia , from Greek .... See Philosopher .] 1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

» When applied to any particular department of knowledge, philosophy denotes the general laws or principles under which all the subordinate phenomena or facts relating to that subject are comprehended. Thus philosophy , when applied to God and the divine government, is called theology ; when applied to material objects, it is called physics ; when it treats of man, it is called anthropology and psychology , with which are connected logic and ethics ; when it treats of the necessary conceptions and relations by which philosophy is possible, it is called metaphysics .

» " Philosophy has been defined: tionscience of things divine and human, and the causes in which they are contained; -- the science of effects by their causes; -- the science of sufficient reasons; -- the science of things possible, inasmuch as they are possible; -- the science of things evidently deduced from first principles; -- the science of truths sensible and abstract; -- the application of reason to its legitimate objects; -- the science of the relations of all knowledge to the necessary ends of human reason; -- the science of the original form of the ego, or mental self; -- the science of science; -- the science of the absolute; -- the scienceof the absolute indifference of the ideal and real." Sir W. Hamilton.

2. A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.

[ Books] of Aristotle and his philosophie .

Chaucer.

We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school.

Locke.

3. Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy .

Then had he spent all his philosophy .

Chaucer.

4. Reasoning; argumentation.

Of good and evil much they argued then, . . .
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy .

Milton.

5. The course of sciences read in the schools. Johnson.

6. A treatise on philosophy.

Philosophy of the Academy , that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy. -- Philosophy of the Garden , that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens. -- Philosophy of the Lyceum , that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered his lectures in the Lyceum at Athens. -- Philosophy of the Porch , that of Zeno and the Stoics; -- so called because Zeno of Citium and his successors taught in the porch of the Poicile, a great hall in Athens.

Philostorgy Phil`o·stor"gy noun [ Greek ...; ... loving + ... affection.] Natural affection, as of parents for their children. [ R.]

Philotechnic, Philotechnical Phil`o·tech"nic, Phil`o·tech"nic·al adjective [ Philo- + Greek ... an art: confer French philotechnique .] Fond of the arts. [ R.]

Philter Phil"ter noun [ French philtre , Latin philtrum , Greek ..., from ... to love, ... dear, loving.] A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love. [ Written also philtre .] Addison.

Philter Phil"ter transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Philtered ; present participle & verbal noun Philtering .] 1. To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.

2. To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion. Gov. of Tongue.

Phimosis Phi·mo"sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a muzzling, from ... muzzle.] (Medicine) A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

Phitoness Phi"ton·ess noun Pythoness; witch. [ Obsolete]

Phiz Phiz noun ; plural Phizes . [ Contr. from physiognomy .] The face or visage. [ Colloq.] Cowper.

Phlebitis Phle·bi"tis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., a vein + -itis .] (Medicine) Inflammation of a vein.

Phlebogram Phleb"o·gram noun [ Greek ..., ... + -gram .] (Physiol.) A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.

Phlebolite, Phlebolith Phleb"o·lite, Phleb"o·lith noun [ Greek ..., ..., a vein + -lite , - lith .] (Medicine) A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

Phlebology Phle·bol"o·gy noun [ Greek ..., ..., a vein + -logy .] A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Phlebotomist Phle·bot"o·mist noun [ Confer French phlébotomiste .] (Medicine) One who practiced phlebotomy.

Phlebotomize Phle·bot"o·mize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Phlebotomized ; present participle & verbal noun Phlebotomizing .] [ Confer French phlébotomiser .] To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. [ R.] Howell.

Phlebotomy Phle·bot"o·my noun [ Latin phlebotomia , Greek ...; ..., ..., a vein + ... to cut: confer French phlébotomie . Confer Fleam .] (Medicine) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

Phlegethon Phleg"e·thon noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., propast participle pr. of ... to blaze.] (Class Myth.) One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.

Fierce Phlegethon ,
Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.

Milton.

Phlegm Phlegm noun [ French phlegme , flegme , Latin phlegma , from Greek ... a flame, inflammation, phlegm, a morbid, clammy humor in the body, from ... to burn. Confer Phlox , Flagrant , Flame , Bleak , adjective , and Fluminate .] 1. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor . Arbuthnot.

2. (Physiol.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

3. (Old Chem.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. Crabb.

4. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.

They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm .

Pope.

Phlegmagogue Phleg"ma·gogue noun [ Greek ... carrying of phlegm; ... phlegm + ... to lead.] (Old Med.) A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

Phlegmasia Phleg·ma"si·a noun [ New Latin , from Greek .... See Phlegm .] (Medicine) An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs.