a. [SO adv. 6 a.] So-called.

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1843.  R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxvii. 344. They all get well under the (so-termed) antiphlogistic treatment.

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1894.  H. Nisbet, Bush Girl’s Rom., 118. It is only the so-termed freeman who is valueless.

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