hypochondriacal, a.
(hɪpəʊkənˈdraɪəkəl, haɪpəʊ-)
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. = hypochondriac A. 1 a.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 70 That Hypocondriacall winde especially which proceedes from the short ribbes. 1748 Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 397 Subject to low Spirits, and the Hypochondriacal Distemper. 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. lxvii, A hypochondriacal tendency had shewn itself in the banker's constitution of late. |
b. = hypochondriac A. 1 b.
| 1665 Glanvill Scepsis Sci. xiii. 73 The wonders it works upon Hypochondriacal Imaginants. 1694 Salmon Bates' Disp. (1713) 199/2 There is a Preparation of the Crocus..which..after an admirable Manner relieves the Hypochondriacal. 1832 Macaulay Ess., Ld. Mahon's Wars Success. (1887) 262 He very soon became quite as hypochondriacal and eccentric [as his predecessor]. |
2. = hypochondriac A. 2 a. rare.
| 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Hypochondriacal regions. |
Hence hypochonˈdriacally adv.
| 1822–56 De Quincey Confess. (1862) 211, I should certainly have become hypochondriacally melancholy. 1863 Forbes Winslow Obscure Dis. Brain & Mind xii. (ed. 3) 265 The mind, hypochondriacally disposed. |