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† hypoˈchondry Obs. Also 7 -condry. [ad. L. hypochondrium, -ia. With sense 2 cf. F. hypocondrie (1812 in Hatz.-Darm.).] 1. = hypochondrium. Chiefly in pl., as hypochondries.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. i. v. (1651) 13 His hypocondries misaffected. Ibid. i. iii. ii. i. 198 Blood and hypocondries both are often affected even in head-melancholy. 1685J. Scott Chr. Life (1698) IV. 220 Envy swells the hypochondries. 2. = hypochondria 2.
1669Penn No Cross iii. §2 Stingy and singular Tempers, affected with the Hypocondry. 1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. South-sea Ho., As if he feared every one about him was a defaulter; in his hypochondry ready to imagine himself one. 1874G. W. Dasent Half a Life III. 322 He recovered him of his hypochondry as soon as ever he married. |