hydropical

comparative more hydropical · superlative most hydropical

1. Dropsical.
2. obsoleteInsatiably thirsty.
3. Swollen with water.

   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.

   1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 31