hydropical
adj/haɪˈdɹɒpɪkəl/
Etymology From Latin hydropicus + -al.
1
Dropsical.
2
Obsolete Insatiably thirsty.
3
Swollen with water.
- 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.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 31:
- Derived terms
- hydropically