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Hippocratic, a.|hɪpəʊˈkrætɪk|
[ad. med.L. Hippocratic-us, f. Hippocrates: see prec.]
1. Of or belonging to Hippocrates; following the method, or made according to the receipt of Hippocrates. Hippocratic oath, an oath comprising the obligations and professional conduct of physicians, taken by those entering upon medical practice. † Hippocratic wine, spiced wine, hippocras.
c1620Bacon Wks. (1857) III. 831 Astringents..Hippocratic wines. 1747J. Barker Essay Anc. Mod. Physicians Dedication p. v, By the Hippocratic Oath, a Physician is bound to honour the Master who has instructed him in his Art. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 508 The Hippocratic rule, that the amount of food and exercise must be balanced. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece ix. 279 These enquiries belong to the history of medicine, and must be based on the Hippocratic writings. 1969Nature 4 Jan. 2/1 The Hippocratic oath of the medical profession has excited the attention of several moralists.
2. Applied to the shrunken and livid aspect of the countenance immediately before death, or in a case of exhaustion threatening death: so called because described by Hippocrates.
1713Spregnell The Plague in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 120 Succeeded by..Lethargy, a dismal Hippocratic Face, staring Eyes. 1770Hanly Ibid. LXI. 132 With a sharp pinched-up nose, hippocratic countenance. 1881Century Mag. XXIII. 300/1 The lines of the face hippocratic.
fig.1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. viii, A terrible Hippocratic look reveals itself. 1880Internat. Rev. VIII. 372 The absolutist régime there shows a Hippocratic visage.
So Hippocratian |-ˈkreɪʃən|, Hippoˈcratical adjs. = prec. Hiˈppocratism, the doctrine of Hippocrates. Hiˈppocratize v. intr., to follow or imitate Hippocrates.
a1849Poe Loss Breath Wks. 1864 IV. 307 The *Hippocratian pathology. 1876W. Stephens Mem. Chichester 190 Half of the wine was to be hypocratian.
1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. ii. 32 With an *Hippocraticall face, deaths trustie messenger. 1799Med. Jrnl. I. 363 A physician truly Hippocratical, and guided by observation.
1818Todd, *Hippocratism [cites Chambers].
1869tr. Hugo's By King's Command I. i. 3 He *Hippocratised and he Pindarised. |