euchymy

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐχυμία (eukhumía), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”).^[1] Attested in English from 17th century.^[2]

Pronunciation

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Particularly: “"Alden's Cyclopedia" pronounces it u'ki - mi, while "A New and Complete Dictionary of English and German" has yu - ke - me, and "Pocket Medical Dictionary for Homeopaths" u ' - ki - me. I would guess /ˈjuːkəmi/.”

Noun

euchymy (uncountable)

(medicine, archaic, rare) A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
- [1696, Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words, page 155:
  Euchymic, (Greek) a being ſupplied with good Juyce.]
- [1707, Glossographia Anglicana nova, page 191:
  Euchymy, (Gr.) is a good Temper of the Blood, other Juices or Fluids in an Animal Body.]
- 1906 April 28, K. MacL., “Poetry”, in New York Times, page 278:
  To-day, filled with the glorious energy of a temporary euchymy and spiritual ecstasy, we cry, Eureka!
- 1957, Henry McIlwain, Chemotherapy and the Central Nervous System, page 289:
  […] the design of drugs becomes a study of euchymy rather than chemotherapy. One is aiming not only at restoring the normal, typical, or average among bodily characteristics, but of maintaining or emphasizing those characteristics in a desired fashion.
- 1968, Nicholas Delbanco, Grasse, 3/23/66, page 67:
  “Be he, missy, your house-bound?” . . . Euchred into euchymy; seeming, however, euchroite.

References

^ “euchymy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
^ “euchymy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[1] “euchymy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

[2] “euchymy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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