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Lymphatic

//lɪmˈfæ.tɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.
  2. 2
    Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.

    "Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart."

  3. 3
    Madly enthusiastic; frantic. obsolete

    "A Negro stood by all the while trembling, now and then lifting up his hands and eyes, muttering his black Art to some hobgoblin, and (when we least suspected it) skips out, and in a limphatic rapture drew a long knife which he brandisht about his head 7 or 8 times, and after so many spells put it up againe; he then kisses the humid earth 3 times and rises merrily: upon a sudden, the skie cleared and no more noise affrighted us."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or produced by lymph wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A vessel that transports lymph.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From lymph + -atic.

Etymology 2

From lymph + -atic.

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