Hygeian

English

Alternative forms

• hygeian
• Hygieian

Etymology

Hygeia +‎ -an

Adjective

Hygeian (comparative more Hygeian, superlative most Hygeian)

1. Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health.
   • 2000, Cai Song, Fundamentals of Psychoneuroimmunology:

     In the Hygeian school of Greek medicine, based on the teachings of Hippocrates, health was viewed as a natural state of the body.

2. Relating to health or its preservation; hygienic.
   • 1839, The New England Gazetteer:

     The waters of these springs have long been justly celebrated for their medicinal and exhilarating qualities; and a vast number from all parts of the United States, and even from foreign countries, resort to them, either for health, or to join the gay and fashionable throng who hold an annual festival around these hygeian fountains.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Hygeian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)