| 单词 |
hydropical |
| 释义 |
hydropical, a.|haɪˈdrɒpɪkəl|
Now rare. (Very common in 17th c.)
[f. L. hydropic-us (see prec.) + -al1.]
1. = prec. A 1.
c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) M vij, Wyne that Isope hath sodden in being dronke, burneth y⊇ hydropical humors. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 172 An Hydropicall inflation of the whole body. 1670Maynwaring Vita Sana vi. 81 One puffs up, fills, and grows hydropical. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 47 It..may arise from a hydropical Disposition.
2. = prec. A 2.
1656Prynne Demurrer Jews' Remitter 23 An Hydropical thirster after gold. 1799Ann. Reg. 113 A hydropical increase of avarice.
b. Of thirst: Unquenchable.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass xi. (1664) 120 A Saltish Nature..in the Ventricle, causeth an Hydropical thirst. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 385 This hydropical hunger and thirst after the earth.
3. = prec. A 3.
1649J. Taylor (Water P.) Wand. 7 Mine Host often did visit me with most delightfull and hydropicall non-sense. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iii. 44 Who would expect a quick flame from Hydropicall Heraclitus? 1684Phil. Trans. XIV. 769 Filled with too great a quantity of aqueous and undigested sap, as it were hydropical.
Hence hyˈdropically adv., with or as with dropsy; dropsically.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iii. 73 Such as be hydropically disposed. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxxv. (1668) 437 All Histories..are so hydropically swollen with lying Legends. |
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