Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health.
  • [lowercase] Pertaining to health or to its preservation. Also hygiean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation.

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  • adjective Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health.
  • adjective Relating to health or its preservation; hygienic.

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Examples

  • Hygeian has a good point; it does sound at least like a conflict of interest, doesn't it?

    Rad Rage: Part Two 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • Almost all those whom I knew there, wanting to be better, went away worse; and, in my own case, a whole month of Midian sun, and a sharp attack of ague and fever were required to burn out the Hexenschuss and to counteract the deleterious effects of the “Hygeian springs.”

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Almost all those whom I knew there, wanting to be better, went away worse; and, in my own case, a whole month of Midian sun, and a sharp attack of ague and fever were required to burn out the Hexenschuss and to counteract the deleterious effects of the "Hygeian springs."

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • With this view I propose forming my Hygeian Society, to be incorporated with that of

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

  • Three post-captains in gallant array, with swords by their sides, our own captain being one, and three surgeons with lancets in their pockets, congregated with grave politeness, and taking their chairs according to precedency of rank, formed the Hygeian court.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • Hygeian establishment at King’s Cross, London, reply.

    Miscellaneous Papers 2007

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