Chalcenterous

Even when facing terrible danger, she was always stolidly chalcenterous.

The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.

[He] did not scruple to tire less chalcenterous workers.

Since the latter’s edition is intended ‘for general school and university use’, it may look as if the youth of 1961 should be viewed as considerably less chalcenterous than their predecessors of 1685.