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ipocras

ipocras is the obsolete form of hippocras.

Meaning of hippocras

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...

Questions about ipocras

What is ipocras the obsolete form of?
Ipocras is the obsolete form of hippocras.

Words near ipocras in the dictionary

  1. IPO
  2. IPO'ed
  3. IPO-ed
  4. Ipock
  5. Ipocks
  6. ipocras
  7. ipod
  8. iPod tax
  9. iPod taxes
  10. ipodate
  11. iPodification

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