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 Hypnotism.Hypoc’risy. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Hypochon’dria
 
(Greek, hypo chondros, under the cartilage)—i.e. the spaces on each side of the epigastric region, supposed to be the seat of melancholy as a disease.   1
 


 Hypnotism.Hypoc’risy. 

 
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