ipocras
English
Noun
ipocras (uncountable)
- 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. […], 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.
References
- “ipocras”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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