Middle English

Proper noun

Ypocras

1. Hippocrates
   • 1300?: Olde Ypocras, Haly, and Galyen — Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue, The Canterbury Tales

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hippocras

Noun

ypocras (plural ypocrass)

1. Wine flavoured with spices.
   • 1300?: He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to increase his courage — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales
   • 1593: Christopher Marlowe, I can make thee drunk with hippocras at any tavern in / Europe for nothing. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
   • 2003: At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree — Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, page