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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

hydropicus

, Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.

hydropique

. See

Dropsical, or resembling dropsy.

Every lust is a kind of

hydropic

distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst.

Tillotson.

hydropical ‎(comparative more hydropical, superlative most hydropical)

Dropsical.
(obsolete) Insatiably thirsty.
Swollen with water.
- 1658: In an Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, wherein the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31)