euchymy

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/ˈjuːkəmi/

noun

A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.

OriginAncient Greek εὐχυμία →
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Meanings

nouneuchymy (uncountable)
  1. archaicrareuncountablemedicineA good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.

    Euchymic, (Greek) a being ſupplied with good Juyce.

    [1696, Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words, page 155
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    Euchymy, (Gr.) is a good Temper of the Blood, other Juices or Fluids in an Animal Body.

    [1707, Glossographia Anglicana nova, page 191

    To-day, filled with the glorious energy of a temporary euchymy and spiritual ecstasy, we cry, Eureka!

    1906 April 28, K. MacL., “Poetry”, in New York Times, page 278

    […] the design of drugs becomes a study of euchymy rather than chemotherapy. One is aiming not only at restoring the normal, typical, or average among bodily characteristics, but of maintaining or emphasizing those characteristics in a desired fashion.

    1957, Henry McIlwain, Chemotherapy and the Central Nervous System, page 289

    “Be he, missy, your house-bound?” . . . Euchred into euchymy; seeming, however, euchroite.

    1968, Nicholas Delbanco, Grasse, 3/23/66, page 67

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekεὐχυμία
  2. Englisheuchymy

From Ancient Greek εὐχυμία (eukhumía), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”). Attested in English from 17th century.

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