chilifactory

English

Alternative forms

• chylifactory

Etymology

From Latin chilus, chylus (“chyle”).

Adjective

chilifactory (comparative more chilifactory, superlative most chilifactory)

1. (rare, obsolete) Producing chyle.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:

     Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a Chilifactory menstruum or digestive preparation drawn from species or individuals, whose stomacks peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies.