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hydropic, a. and n.|haɪˈdrɒpɪk|
Forms: 4–6 ydropike, 5 ydropycke, idropik, 6 -ique, edrop(p)ic, 6–8 hydropick, 7– hydropic.
[ME. a. OF. ydropique, -ike (12th c.), ad. L. hydrōpic-us, a. Gr. ὑδρωπικ-ός, f. ὕδρωψ, ὑδρωπ- hydrops. In 16th c. conformed to the L.: so F. hydropique.]
A. adj.
1. = dropsical 1, 2.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 428 b/1 One parfytelye ydropycke or fylled with dropsy. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 109 His wambe..wes swolin, as he had been edroppic [printed edroppit]. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. (Arb.) 306 The hydropick and swelling gowte. 1651Cleveland Poems 49 Like an Hydropick body ful of Rhewms. 1752Berkeley Further Th. Tar-water Wks. III. 505 This medicine..is to hydropic patients a strong purge. 1784Johnson Let. 9 Sept. in Boswell, Of the hydropick tumour there is now very little appearance. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 354 Some hydropic symptoms appeared, which gradually increasing in the form of an ascites or hydrothorax [etc.]. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 327 When the general hydropic enlargement..began to increase.
†2. Having an insatiable thirst, like a dropsical person; hence fig. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1096 Drye folk & ydropike. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas vii. viii. (Bodl. MS. 263) lf. 354 b/2 This excessif Glotoun Moste Idropik drank ofte ageyn lust; The mor he drank, the mor he was athrust. 1648Eikon Bas. vi. (1824) 39 If some mens hydropick insatiablenesse had not learned to thirst the more by how much more they drank. a1763Shenstone Econ. i. 172 Thy voice, hydropic fancy! calls aloud For costly draughts.
3. Charged or swollen with water; swollen.
1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xxvii. 349 It..swels like an hydropick cloud. 1651Ogilby æsop (1665) 33 The Hydropic Kingdoms of the Bog. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. x. 439 Dark Clouds..hang their deep Hydropick Bellies down. 1880Gunther Fishes 122 The young..remain in an undeveloped condition, assuming an hydropic appearance.
†4. Tending to cause dropsy. Obs. rare.
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 32 So unwholsome and Hydropick he conceived this drink to be.
†5. Having the quality of curing dropsy. Obs.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 299 Astringents and Strengthners are always mixt with Hydropick Medicines. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 13 Hydropic Ale.
B. n.
1. A dropsical person. Now rare.
1549Compl. Scot. xv. 126 Thai may be comparit to the edropic, the quhilk the mair that he drynk the mair he hes desire to drynk. a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 221 No physician would reach water to an hydropick that earnestly thirsts for it. 1755Phil. Trans. XLIX. 47 This recovery was much talked of, and set all the hydropics a rubbing. 1891C. E. Norton tr. Dante, Hell xxx. 166 And the hydropic, ‘Thou sayest true in this’.
2. A medicine for the cure of dropsy.
1694Salmon Bates' Disp. i. (1713) 61/1 It is a Diuretick Medicament, and a specifick Hidropick. 1721Bailey, Hydropicks, Medicines which expel watery Humours in the Dropsy. |