cacochymic
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English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]cacochymic (comparative more cacochymic, superlative most cacochymic)
- (archaic) Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.
- 1800, Johann Gotfried Herder, Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man:
- their children , even to the age of ten , frequently have deformed puffed up faces , and are of a cacochymic aspect
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[edit]References
[edit]- “cacochymic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.