hydropical
English
Etymology
Latin hydropicus + -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haɪˈdɹɒpɪkəl/
Adjective
hydropical (comparative more hydropical, superlative most hydropical)
- Dropsical.
- (obsolete) Insatiably thirsty.
- Swollen with water.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31)
- In an Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, wherein the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31)
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