hydropical

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English

Etymology

From Latin hydropicus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haɪˈdɹɒpɪkəl/

Adjective

hydropical (comparative more hydropical, superlative most hydropical)

  1. Dropsical.
  2. (obsolete) Insatiably thirsty.
  3. Swollen with water.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 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.

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