† hypoˈchondry Obs.
Also 7 -condry.
[ad. L. hypochondrium, -ia. With sense 2 cf. F. hypocondrie (1812 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. = hypochondrium. Chiefly in pl., as hypochondries.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. i. v. (1651) 13 His hypocondries misaffected. Ibid. i. iii. ii. i. 198 Blood and hypocondries both are often affected even in head-melancholy. 1685 J. Scott Chr. Life (1698) IV. 220 Envy swells the hypochondries. |
2. = hypochondria 2.
| 1669 Penn No Cross iii. §2 Stingy and singular Tempers, affected with the Hypocondry. 1820 Lamb Elia Ser. i. South-sea Ho., As if he feared every one about him was a defaulter; in his hypochondry ready to imagine himself one. 1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life III. 322 He recovered him of his hypochondry as soon as ever he married. |