ipocras

English

Noun

ipocras (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of hippocras.
    • 1390, Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale‎:
      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. […], volume 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.

References
  • ipocras in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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