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cachexy
(see below)
Also 7 cacexy, -ie, cachexe, -ie, cakexy; and in mod.Lat. form caˈchexia, (8 cacexia).
[ad. mod.L. cachexia or F. cachexie (16th c. in Paré), ad. Gr. καχεξία, f. κακ-ός bad + -ἑξια = ἕξις habit or state, f. ἔχ-ειν to have, have oneself, be in condition. Walker accents (ˈkækɛksɪ) which is according to Eng. analogies; but mod. Dicts. have mostly |kəˈkɛksɪ|.]
‘A depraved condition of the body, in which nutrition is everywhere defective.’ Syd. Soc. Lex.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 D iij, The euyll habytude of the body (whiche the Grekes call Cachexie). 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 58 The dysease which the phisicians caule Cachexia. 1651Witte tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iv. xii. 262 Who can in a Cachexie draw all the vitious humours out of the body at once. 1775Sir E. Barry Observ. Wines 417 Liable to..cachexies..etc. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fire-side Stor. 65 Affected with fevers and cachexy.
b. A depraved habit of mind or feeling.
1652L. S. People's Lib. xvi. 40 The Israelites desiring a King..out of a Cacexie and evill frame of spirit. 1657Reeve God's Plea Ep. Ded. 5, I see..a cakexy of evill life amongst you. 1843F. E. Paget Warden of Birkingholt 161 He would think that a cachexy of chattering had become epidemic among the clergy of the nineteenth century. 1868Symonds in Fortn. Rev. Dec. IV. 602 Both poets [Clough and De Musset] describe the maladie du siècle, the nondescript cachexy, in which aspiration mingles with disenchantment, satire and scepticism with a childlike desire for the tranquillity of reverence and belief.
c. Said of a body politic.
1654L'Estrange Chas. I, 187 Her high repletion brought her [the City] into a Cachexy. 1883Macm. Mag. Nov. 33 Ireland..lies fretful and wrathful under a grim social cachexy of distressful centuries. |