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| Noun | 1. A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.[Websters]. | |
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Date "HIPPOCRAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Etymology:Hippocras \Hip"po*cras\, noun. [French expression hippocras, hypocras, New Latin vinum hippocraticum, literally, wine of Hippocrates.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HIPPOCRAS
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] A medicinal drink, composed of wine with an infusion of spices and other ingredients; used as a cordial. That directed by the late London Dispensary, is to be made of cloves, ginger, cinnamon and nutmegs, beat and infused in canary with sugar; to the infusion, milk, a lemon, and some slips of rosemary are to be added, and the whole strained through flannel. Hippocrates'sleeve, a kind of bag, made by uniting the opposite angles of a square piece of flannel, used for straining syrups and decoctions. Hippocratic face, [L. facies hippocratica,] pale, sunken, and contracted features, considered as a fatal symptom in diseases.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Literature | 1: "Well knew he the old Esculapius, 2: And Deiscorides, and cek Rufus, 3: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Prologue, 431). 4: Hippocras A cordial made of Lisbon and Canary wines, bruised spices, and sugar; so called from the strainer through which it is passed, called by apothecaries Hippocrates' sleeve. Hippocrates in the Middle Ages was called "Yypocras" or "Hippocras." Thus: 5: Old Yypocras, Haly, and Galien. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] A cordial made of spiced wine, etc. Quotations 1882: Spiced wine, sweetened with sugar or honey, perhaps the original of the modern liqueur, was employed occasionally under the name of hippocras. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 641. (references) | ||
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