arch. Also 6–8 -chymie, and in Latin form 6– cacochymia, (7 cacochym). [a. F. cacochymie (16th c. in Paré), and mod.L. cacochȳmia, a. Gr. κακοχῡμία (Galen) badness of the humours, f. κακόχῡμος: see above.] In the medical system of the Humorists: Unhealthy state of the ‘humours’ or fluids of the body; ‘ill-humoured’ state (of the body).
1541. R. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., 2 A ij b. Yf eroysion habounde inwardely it is caused of cacochimie.
1665. G. Harvey, Advice agst. Plague, 21. Cacochymies or fowl bodies of the Vulgar … do require strong Purges.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 184. The Anarchy of a cacochymia keeps not court in the veins.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., I. 20. The Melancholick Cacochymie. Ibid., XVI. 550. A great corruption of the Blood and Cacochym.
1744. Mitchell, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 144. A peculiar Kind of Cachexy, accompanied with an atrabilious Cacochymy.
1839. New Monthly Mag., LVI. 386. Are not their countenances disfigured by the cacochymy of their humours.
1852. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss., 248.
