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‖ ˈvappa Now rare.
[L.]
Flat or sour wine. Also fig.
[1601Holland Pliny I. 424 Whereupon it getteth the name of Vappa, and is cleane turned to bee dead or soure.] 1629H. Burton Babel on Bethel 69 Rome or Trent hath made a dead vappa of the word of God. 1631Massinger Believe as You List iv. i, Your viper wine [is]..But vappa to the nectar of her lippe. 1666Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 202 Whether Must, Wine, spirit of Wine, Vinegar, Tartar, and Vappa, be specifically distinct Bodies? 1840De Quincey Wks. (1862) X. 217 But how that can be, when you recollect the philosophic Vappa of Xenophon, seems to pass the deciphering power of Œdipus.
transf.1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Vappa,..a peculiar state of the blood, when it is in a low, dispirited condition. |