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hypochondriacal, a.|hɪpəʊkənˈdraɪəkəl, haɪpəʊ-|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. = hypochondriac A. 1 a.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 70 That Hypocondriacall winde especially which proceedes from the short ribbes. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 397 Subject to low Spirits, and the Hypochondriacal Distemper. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. lxvii, A hypochondriacal tendency had shewn itself in the banker's constitution of late.
b. = hypochondriac A. 1 b.
1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. xiii. 73 The wonders it works upon Hypochondriacal Imaginants. 1694Salmon Bates' Disp. (1713) 199/2 There is a Preparation of the Crocus..which..after an admirable Manner relieves the Hypochondriacal. 1832Macaulay Ess., Ld. Mahon's Wars Success. (1887) 262 He very soon became quite as hypochondriacal and eccentric [as his predecessor].
2. = hypochondriac A. 2 a. rare.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Hypochondriacal regions.
Hence hypochonˈdriacally adv.
1822–56De Quincey Confess. (1862) 211, I should certainly have become hypochondriacally melancholy. 1863Forbes Winslow Obscure Dis. Brain & Mind xii. (ed. 3) 265 The mind, hypochondriacally disposed. |