hydropical

English

Etymology

From Latin hydropicus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɒpɪkəl/

Adjective

hydropical (comparative more hydropical, superlative most hydropical)

1. Dropsical.
2. (obsolete) Insatiably thirsty.
3. 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.

Anagrams

• halocyprid