Definition of "hypochondriacal"

hypochondriacal

adjective
comparative more hypochondriacal, superlative most hypochondriacal
1. (obsolete) Coming from the hypochondria; pertaining to or caused by depressive spirits.
  Quotations
  Fracastorius, Fallopius, and others, being to give their sentence of a party labouring of hypochondriacal melancholy, could not find out by the symptoms which part was most especially affected […].
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps
2. Suffering from hypochondria.
  Quotations
  […] the hypochondriacal British ceramist William De Morgan, who spent winters in Florence for his health while gradually bankrupting his business back home producing iridescent mythological scenes on tiles, vases and plates.
  2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times‎