Meanings
adjectivechilifactory (comparative more chilifactory, superlative most chilifactory)
comparative more chilifactory · superlative most chilifactory · alternative chylifactory
- obsoleterareProducing chyle.
Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a Chilifactory menstruum or digestive preparation drawn from species or individuals, whose stomacks peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5
Origin
- Latinchilus
- Englishchilifactory
From Latin chilus, chylus (“chyle”).
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