| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Dropsical, or resembling dropsy.[Websters]
2. Being dropsical. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb hydropically.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (hydropically) | 1. In a hydropical manner.[Websters]. 2. In a dropsical or swollen manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HYDROPICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HYDROPICAL
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Dropsical; diseased with extravasated water.. | 2: [Adjective] Containing water; caused by extravasated water; as a hydropic swelling.. | 3: [Adjective] Resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (obsolete) Insatiably thirsty. (references) | 2: [Adjective] Dropsical. (references) | 3: [Adjective] Swollen with water. 1658: 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 — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
