ipocras
English
Noun
ipocras (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of hippocras.
- 1390, Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale[1]:
- He drinketh Ipocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to encresen his corage...
- 1846, James Orchard Halliwell, “IPOCRAS”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 478, column 1:
- Ipocras seems to have been a great favourite with our ancestors, being served up at every entertainment, public or private.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ipocras”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)