Definition of Chymify

1. v. t. To form into chyme.

Definition of Chymify

1. Verb. (physiology) To form into chyme. ¹

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Definition of Chymify

1. to form into chyme [v CHYMIFIED, CHYMIFYING, CHYMIFIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chymify

chylous hydrothorax
chylous urine
chyluria
chylurias
chylus
chymase
chymases
chymes
chymic
chymics
chymiferous
chymification
chymified
chymifies
chymify (current term)
chymifying
chymist
chymistry
chymists
chymopapain
chymopoiesis
chymorrhoea
chymosin
chymosinogen
chymosins
chymostatin
chymotropic pigment
chymotrypsin
chymotrypsinogen

Literary usage of Chymify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"... vt chymify. Chypre, /. Cyprus. Chypre, m. Cyprus wine. ci, adv. here; now. (Ci may be attached to a word to limit the meaning of ce, cette, celui, etc.; ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1840)
"And it is certain that Wordsworth's— ' Rosy man of purple cheer, An oily man right plump to see,' elaborates gastric juice enough to chymify food very ..."

3. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1919)
"Exceptions, however, must be made for the bone, oil, .cream, and one or two other articles, which chymify much slower and with more difficulty than the less ..."

4. Human Physiology by Robley Dunglison (1841)
"To determine whether this fluid, obtained from the stomach of fasting animals, was destined to chymify the food, Spallanzani tried the following ..."

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