hypochondriacal
Adjective

hypochondriacal

  1. (obsolete) Coming from the hypochondria; pertaining to or caused by depressive spirits.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:
      , I.iii.2.2:
      Fracastorius, Fallopius, and others, being to give their sentence of a party labouring of hypochondriacal melancholy, could not find out by the symptoms which part was most especially affected […].
  2. Suffering from hypochondria.



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