Obs. rare. [ad. med.L. (h)ēmitricius (morbus), (h)emitricia (febris), corruptly ad. Gr. ἡμιτριταῖος semi-tertian (fever).] A kind of fever.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IV. viii. (1495), 92. Feuers that hiȝt Emitrichie. [Ibid., VII. vii. 227. Some sykenes whyche is callyd Emitricius.]
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, cxliv. 53. In Englyshe it is named the Emytrycke fever.
