cacochymic

English

Alternative forms

• cacochymical

Adjective

cacochymic (comparative more cacochymic, superlative most cacochymic)

1. (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

Derived terms

• anticacochymic

 

References

• “cacochymic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.