Hydropical
//haɪˈdɹɒpɪkəl// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Dropsical.
- 2 Insatiably thirsty. obsolete
- 3 Swollen with water.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Latin hydropicus + -al.
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