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hippocras Obs. exc. Hist. or arch.|ˈhɪpəʊkræs|
Forms: 4–6 ypocras, (5 ypocrate), 6–7 ipocras, hipocras, 6–7 (9 arch.) ippocras, hypocras, 7– hippocras, -crass, (6 ypo-, ipo-, hypo-, -crass(e, -crase, -crace, -craze, 7 ippocrass(e, hyppocras).
[a. OF. ipocras, ypocras (a 1400), forms of the proper name Hippocrates; in sense 1, after the med.L. name, vinum Hippocraticum ‘wine of Hippocrates’, app. given to it because it was filtered through ‘Hippocrates' sleeve’ or ‘bag’: see next. See Skeat Chaucer V. 361.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 571 Ne hele me may noo physicien, Noght ypocras, ne Galyen.]
1. A cordial drink made of wine flavoured with spices, formerly much in vogue.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 365 He drynketh Ypocras Clarree and Vernage Of spices hoote tencreessen his corage. 1466Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 377 The same day my mastyr paid fore ypocras to the Ryalle x.d. 1513Douglas æneis i. xi. 67 The quene..Bad fill it full of the riche Ypocras. 1570Levins Manip. 7/23 Hypocrace, vinum myrrhatum. 1600Heywood 1st Pt. Edw. IV Wks. 1874 I. 10 We'le take the tankards from the conduit-cocks To fill with ipocras and drinke carouse. 1613in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 285 The king and queen were both present, and tasted wafers and hippocrass, as at ordinary weddings. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xv. 196 After the christening were brought wafers, comfits..and hypocras and muscadine wine. 1843Lytton Last Bar. iv. vi, Now there appeared the attendants, with hippocras, syrups, and comfits.
†2. hippocras bag. A conical bag of cotton, linen, or flannel, used as a filter or strainer. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 153 The wholesomest wines..be such as haue run through a strainer or Ipocras bag, and thereby lost some part of their strength. 1641French Distill. v. (1651) 123 When you would have this or any other Liquor to be very clear, you may use the triple Hypocras bag. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 190 Put them in an Hippocras bag and let it drain out of it self. |