| 单词 | hippocratic wine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHippocratic wine Hippocratic wine n. [compare post-classical Latin vinum Hippocraticum (a1536 in Erasmus) and compare earlier hippocras wine n. at hippocras n. Compounds] historical and rare after 18th cent. a drink made from wine sweetened with sugar or honey and flavoured with spices and other ingredients, typically drunk as a restorative or a digestive; = hippocras n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > drinks made with wine > [noun] > spiced wine hippocrasa1400 hippocras winea1475 pepper wine1601 Hippocratic winea1626 mirabilis1673 sangaree1736 a1626 F. Bacon Catal. Astringents in Baconiana (1679) 165 Hypocratic Wines..made of austere Materials. 1746 R. James Mod. Pract. Physic II. 245 A draught of hippocratic wine prepared of aromatics, as orange and lemon peels, mace, cloves, cardamoms, and sugar, affords great relief [from colic]. 1908 Med. Times (N.Y.) Nov. 334/1 He states that a bath and the use of the juice of sweet almonds with Hippocratic wine relieved the pains but that they returned as soon as the bath was stopped. 2014 J. P. Rhind Fragrance + Wellbeing i. iv. 98 Hippocrates..invented aromatised wine—Hippocratic wine or vinum absinthium—from which vermouth is descended. < as lemmas |
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