Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated upon the fianks: as, hypochondrial feathers. Also
hypochondriac. Macgillivray .
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The only reason I let it die is because I thought I didn't want it, I thought it was only a hypochondrial fever that didn't require a cure, but as it turns out I thrived on and was directed by it, it made it hard to breathe but at least I had goals then.
oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2006
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In his monograph, entitled _Potus Chocolati_, he recommends it in all diseases of general weakness, macies, low spirits, and in hypochondrial complaints, and what since his time have been termed nervous diseases.
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(2: 360.15), and the results of “hypochondrial winds” that result in farts when raging in the guts, and in heavenly visions when raging in the mind (2: 348. 25-9).
Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007
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