chilifactory

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin chilus, chylus (“chyle”).

Adjective[edit]

chilifactory (comparative more chilifactory, superlative most chilifactory)

  1. (rare, obsolete) Producing chyle.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
      Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a Chilifactory menstruum or digestive preparation drawn from species or individuals, whose stomacks peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies.
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