Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as hydropic.

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  • adjective Dropsical.
  • adjective obsolete Insatiably thirsty.
  • adjective Swollen with water.

Etymologies

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From Latin hydropicus + -al.

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Examples

  • Who would expect a quick flame from hydropical Heraclitus?

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where 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

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • The leaves of the mulberry should be collected from trees of seven or eight years old; if of such as are very young, it impairs their growth, neither are they so healthful for the worms, making them hydropical, and apt to burst: As do also the leaves of such trees as be planted in a too waterish, or over-rich soil, or where no sun comes, and all sick, and yellow leaves are hurtful.

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

  • Who would expect a quick flame from hydropical Heraclitus?

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

  • His sickness, that was, as your Lordship must needs have heard, hydropical, or rather scorbutical, c as they term it, had been long and painfully lingering.

    Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • In an hydropical body, ten years buried in the churchyard, we met with a fat concretion, where 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 Castile soap, whereof part remaineth with us. [

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

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