dropsicaladj.
/ˈdrɒpsɪkəl/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of dropsy.
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1688 London Gaz. No. 2323/1 Dangerously ill of a Dropsical Distemper.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Flower de Luce The Juice..evacuates dropsical Water.
1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) ii. xxi. 372 Hydrophthalmia, or a dropsical enlargement of the [eye].
1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 280 Dropsical symptoms.
2. Affected with or subject to dropsy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > excessive fluid > dropsy
water-sickOE
dropicc1425
hydropic1483
hydropical?1550
oedematous1583
hydroptic1608
hydroptical1640
hydropsic1649
dropsic1651
leucophlegmatical1658
oedematic1666
leucophlegmatic1668
anasarcous1676
dropsical1678
oedematose1710
dropsied1793
plerocephalic1927
1678 H. Sampson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 437.
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 180 Dropsical People are generally observ'd to sweat much, but perspire little.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 153 Anasarca, a diseased condition of plants, resembling that of dropsical subjects.
3. transferred and figurative.
a. Swollen, enlarged.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic
fleshyc1369
windya1382
unmeasureda1425
puffing1566
embossed1578
puffed1587
bombasted1589
fustian1592
puffya1594
full-mouthed1594
orificial1594
gouty1595
swelling1597
mouth-filling1598
taffeta1598
bombast1601
tiptoe-strouting1602
turgidous1602
swollen1605
dropsieda1616
exsufflicatea1616
turgent1621
ampullous1622
tympanous1625
high-flown1632
tumorousa1637
blustered1638
tumid1648
bombastical1649
ranting1650
inflated1652
tuftaffetya1658
pompiona1670
bombastic1704
dropsical1721
thundering1725
turgid1725
exsuffolate1744
Lexiphanic1767
hi cockalorum1783
Ossianic1788
mouthing1814
mouthy1827
sophomoric1837
highfalutin1839
sophomorical1847
spread eagle1853
tumescent1882
Herodian1886
Ossianesque1889
Barnumesque1890
1721 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 226 In dropsical bombast Expressions.
1831 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 357 Inflates itself into a dropsical boastfulness and vain glory.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 321 Puffy with a dropsical want of proportion.
b. Overcharged with water.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]
thorough wetOE
drunk1382
drunkenc1420
uliginosec1440
dung wetc1450
drookeda1522
wet through, to the skin1526
sogginga1552
washed1557
washy1566
muck-wet1567
wringing wet1570
drenched1589
dropsy1605
ydrenched1610
sobby1611
dropsieda1616
slocken1643
uliginous1650
dabbling1661
sodded1661
sobbing1664
sobbed1693
flashy1702
saturated1728
saturate1785
livereda1796
sappy1806
laving1812
sodden1820
sopped1822
soppy1823
soaked1829
dropsical1845
soddened1845
soaking wet1847
soggya1852
sogged1860
soaking1864
sopping1866
soaken1898
astream1929
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 34 The Country to the East is all Fen..(and still of a very dropsical character).
Derivatives
ˈdropsically adv.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adverb]
dropsically1785
sloppily1898
soddenly1901
soggily1975
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adverb] > as of dropsy
hydropically1646
dropsically1785
oedematously1802
1785 Eugenius I. 84 He..was somewhat dropsically disposed.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iii. 20 That stood dropsically bulging over the causeway.
ˈdropsicalness n.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Dropsicalness, having a dropsy.
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