chilifactory
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin chilus, chylus (“chyle”).
Adjective
[edit]chilifactory (comparative more chilifactory, superlative most chilifactory)
- (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.