dead calm vs philosophical

dead calm

adj
  • Completely still with no waves and no wind. 

noun
  • The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind. 

philosophical

adj
  • Detached, calm, stoic. 

  • Of, or pertaining to, philosophy. 

  • Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful. 

How often have the words dead calm and philosophical occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )