a. [ad. Gr. καρδιαλγικός; cf. F. cardialgique: see prec.]
1. Pertaining to cardialgia.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 124. They … helpe the Cardialgicke paines of the stomacke. Ibid., viii. 188.
2. fig. (nonce-use.) Producing ‘heart-ache.’
1817. Coleridge, Own Times (1850), III. 951. Oh! the mouths of the slanderous brood in this one city would furnish twice as many cardialgic teeth, that have given ten-fold more heart-aches than the others, with all the aid of faith and fancy, ever cured tooth-aches.
