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hippocras

Syllables: hip·po·crasUK/ˈhɪ.pəʊ.kɹæs/US/ˈhɪ.poʊ.kɹæs/

hippocras noun: a cordial, made from a spiced wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, which are strained out by a cloth before the drink is consumed.

Noun

hippocras (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A cordial, made from a spiced wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, which are strained out by a cloth before the drink is consumed.
    • It is long since that disorderly potentate [the Lord of Misrule] went the way of the Dodo, and hippocras has become almost as mythical as ambrosia; but, once upon a time, they played a prominent part in legal education.1861 November 23, J. Hamilton Fyfe, “High Days in the Temple”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number 126, New York, N.Y.: Leavitt, Trow, & Co., →OCLC...
    • Spiced wine, sweetened with sugar or honey, perhaps the original of the modern liqueur, was employed occasionally under the name of hippocras.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 641

Origin of hippocras

From Middle English ypocras, from Old French ipocras, ypocras (“Hippocrates”), after Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum (“Hippocrates's wine”), due to the fact that the wine was filtered through a Hippocratic sleeve.

Questions about hippocras

What does hippocras mean?
Hippocras means a cordial, made from a spiced wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, which are strained out by a cloth before the drink is consumed.
What part of speech is hippocras?
Hippocras is a noun.
How do you pronounce hippocras?
Hippocras is pronounced /ˈhɪ.pəʊ.kɹæs/ (UK).

Words near hippocras in the dictionary

  1. hippocausts
  2. hippocentaur
  3. hippocentaurs
  4. hippocephalic
  5. hippocoprosterol
  6. hippocras
  7. hippocrateaceous
  8. Hippocrates
  9. Hippocrates sleeve
  10. Hippocrates sleeves
  11. Hippocrates' sleeve

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