a. arch. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Having the humours of the body depraved; ‘ill-humoured’ (in body, and jocularly, in disposition).
1606. Holland, Sueton., Annot. 18. In cacochymicall bodies, such as his was.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physic, 193. To cure a cacochymical person.
1707. Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 97. The old Writers call’d these the different Species of cacochimical Choler.
1836. Fraser’s Mag., XIII. 227. By what means did you … arrive at a cacochymical old age?
1837. Beddoes, Lett., March. Critical and cacochymical remarks on European literature.
