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dropsical, a.|ˈdrɒpsɪkəl|
[f. dropsy + -ic + -al1, after hydropical.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of dropsy.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2323/1 Dangerously ill of a Dropsical Distemper. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Flower de Luce, The Juice..evacuates dropsical water. 1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 372 Hydrophthalmia, or a dropsical enlargement of the [eye]. 1846G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 280 Dropsical symptoms.
2. Affected with or subject to dropsy.
1678H. Sampson in Phil. Trans. 437. 1725 N. Robinson Th. Physick 180 Dropsical People are generally observ'd to sweat much, but perspire little. 1845Florist's Jrnl. 153 Anasarca, a diseased condition of plants, resembling that of dropsical subjects.
3. transf. and fig.
a. Swollen, enlarged.
b. Overcharged with water.
1721Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 226 In dropsical bombast Expressions. 1831Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 6 Inflates itself into a dropsical boastfulness and vainglory. 1845― Cromwell (1873) I. 19 The Country to the East is all Fen..and still of a very dropsical character. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 321 Puffy with a dropsical want of proportion.
Hence ˈdropsically adv.; ˈdropsicalness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Dropsicalness, having a dropsy. 1785Eugenius I. 84 He..was somewhat dropsically disposed. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iii, That stood dropsically bulging over the causeway. |