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hippocras

[ hip-uh-kras ]

noun

  1. an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.


hippocras

/ ˈhɪpəʊˌkræs /

noun

  1. an old English drink of wine flavoured with spices
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hippocras1

1325–75; Middle English ypocras, apparently short for ypocras wyn (translation of Medieval Latin vīnum hippocraticum; so called because clarified by filtering through a strainer named after Hippocrates); Middle English ypocras < Old French: Hippocrates < Medieval Latin Hippocrās, alteration of Latin Hippocratēs, on model of words like cīvitās (nominative), cīvitātis (genitive)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hippocras1

C14 ypocras, from Old French: Hippocrates , probably referring to a filter called Hippocrates' sleeve
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Example Sentences

Neither wine nor hippocras had befogged the stout heads of the Assyrians, nor loosened their canny tongues.

To these their Norman successors added clarr, garhiofilac, and hippocras.

The constant mention about this time of Hippocras (Ipocras, Ypocrasse) demands some notice.

Sack and hippocras are no longer to be found in our cellars; but, as we have shown, we still compound the wassail-bowl.

Then pour it into an Hippocras bag, and let it run through it two or three times, to be very clear.

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