a. and sb. arch. Also 6 cacochymyke, -chimick, -ike, 7 -chymick(e. [f. CACOCHYME (or its source) + -IC.]
A. adj. Having unhealthy or depraved humours; ill-humoured (in body).
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. In cacochymyke bodyes and replete.
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., I. iii. 34. His bodie [was] plethoricke and cacochymicke.
1665. R. Kephale, Medela Pestil., 71. If Cacochimick, that is, full of gross and corrupt humours (which will appear by the paleness and ill colour of the face, defective strength, and the like) he must be well purged.
1852. T. Thompson, Ann. Influenza, 4. They had a pale cacco-chimic and depraved countenance.
B. sb. An ‘ill-humoured’ person.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 158. Made now of Alcumistes, Cacochimickes, of Phisitions, pewterers.
