hypochondriacal
Adjective
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Adjective
hypochondriacal
- (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 […].
- Suffering from hypochondria.
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