hydropathicadj.n.
/hʌɪdrəʊˈpaθɪk/ A. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of hydropathy; practising hydropathy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] > hydrotherapeutics
hydriatric1843
hydropathic1843
hydropathical1844
balneological1879
hydrotherapeutic1885
hydrotherapic1894
balneotherapeutic1906
1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 271/1 When the cold-water cure was first heard of in this country, we prophesied..that there would forthwith be numerous Hydropathic Establishments in England.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 784 Hydropathic bandages.
1869 R. T. Claridge Cold-water Cure Pref. 4 Hydropathic establishments are now to be found in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and in America.
1876 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. ii. 81 I went in 1848 for some months to Malvern for hydropathic treatment.
B. n.
Short for hydropathic establishment.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > place to which invalids resort > hydropathic establishment
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hydropathic1887
1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike xxiii To go to a Hydropathic in the wilds of Scotland or Ireland.
1895 A. M. Stoddart J. S. Blackie x. 240 Dull with villa lodgings and hideous hydropathics.
Derivatives
hydroˈpathical adj. = A.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] > hydrotherapeutics
hydriatric1843
hydropathic1843
hydropathical1844
balneological1879
hydrotherapeutic1885
hydrotherapic1894
balneotherapeutic1906
1844 C. Dickens in J. Forster Life Dickens iv. i. 137 I had withdrawn from Public Life..to pass the evening of my days in hydropathical pursuits and the contemplation of virtue.
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