hippocras

From Middle English ypocras, from Old French ipocras, ypocras (“Hippocrates”), after Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum (“Hippocrates's wine”), due to the fact that the wine was filtered through a Hippocratic sleeve.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪ.pəʊ.kɹæs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪ.poʊ.kɹæs/
• Rhymes: -ɪpəʊkɹæs
• Hyphenation: hip‧po‧cras

hippocras (uncountable)

1. (historical) A cordial, made from a spiced wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, which are strained out by a cloth before the drink is consumed.
   • 1861 November 23, J. Hamilton Fyfe, “High Days in the Temple”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number 126, New York, N.Y.: Leavitt, Trow, & Co., →OCLC, page 610, column 2:

     It is long since that disorderly potentate [the Lord of Misrule] went the way of the Dodo, and hippocras has become almost as mythical as ambrosia; but, once upon a time, they played a prominent part in legal education.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 641:

     Spiced wine, sweetened with sugar or honey, perhaps the original of the modern liqueur, was employed occasionally under the name of hippocras.

• prophasic