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单词 hygeia
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Hygeian.

Brit. /hʌɪˈdʒiːə/, U.S. /haɪˈdʒiə/
Forms: Also rarely Hygiea, Hygea.
Etymology: < Greek ὑγείᾱ, late and non-Attic form of ὑγίεια health, Ὑγίεια the goddess of health, < ὑγιής sound, healthy. From the same Greek form were late Latin Hygēa and Hygīa (compare Darēus and Darīus = Greek Δαρεῖος). The rare variant Hygiea represents Greek ὑγίεια.
1. In Greek Mythology the goddess of health, daughter of Æsculapius; health personified; transferred a system of sanitation or medical practice. (In quot. 1816, a statue of Hygeia.)
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1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 29 Another daughter of hers by Æsculapius called Higia.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hygiea, health.]
1737 M. Green Spleen 73 Hygea's sons with hound and horn, And jovial cry awake the morn.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. ii. 35 The temple of Hygeia.
1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 75 Divine Hygiea! on thy votaries bend Thy angel-looks, oh, hear us, and defend!
1802–3 T. Beddoes (title) Hygëia; or Essays Moral and Medical.
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia I. 73 So entirely does Hygeia disdain to become the slave of Plutus.
1816 J. Dallaway Of Statuary & Sculpt. vi. 314 He had an Hygeia about 2 feet high.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Nominalist & Realist in Wks. (1906) I. 251 Criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
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2. Astronomy. Name of the 10th asteroid, discovered by Gasparis in 1849.
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