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English
Etymology
From Latin hydropicus + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hydropical (comparative more hydropical, superlative most hydropical)
- Dropsical.
- (obsolete) Insatiably thirsty.
- 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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