Middle English Dictionary Entry
ipocrās n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ipocrās n. Also ipocrasse, ipocratis. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A kind of cordial, made of red wine, spices, sugar, etc., strained through cloth bags; (b) error for idrosacre; (c) Hippocrates, the physician.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1807 : He drynketh ypocras, clarree, and vernage, Of spices hoote tencressen his corage.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.58 : Sche [Fortune] to somme, of fraude and of fallas, Mynystreth pyment, bawme, & ypocras.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.2401 : He neuer drank licour To hym mor holsom, so streiht stood the caas, Confect with spices, pyment, nor ypocras.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Virtue (Hrl 2255)2 : Of wyn and spices is maad good ypocras.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)3398 : Whan they come to hir taverne, She serveth hem..With ypocras and with pyment.
- c1450-c1500 Lydg.FP (Bergen)9.809 : With confect drynk of ipocratis [vr. & ipocras] sueete.
- (1463-4) Acc.Howard in RC 57246 : The same day my mastyr payd ffor a potelle of ypocrasse, xx d.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)121 : To make ypocras..take..Gynger, Synamome, Graynis, Sugur, Turnesole..For commyn peple Gynger, Canelle, longe pepur, hony aftur claryfiynge..and..red wyne.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)144 : Alle þese ingredyentes..ar for ypocras makynge..let hit renne in iiij or vj bagges; gete þem, if þow may, of bultelle clothe.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)715 : Afftur þis, delicatis mo. Blaunderelle, or pepyns, with carawey in confite, Waffurs to ete, ypocras to drynk with delite.
- a1600(1472) Rec.Bluemantle (Jul C.6)388 : They had grene gynger, dyuers cyryppes, comfyttes, and Ipocras.
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)139/12 : I ȝaf him to drynke hoot ypocras [vr. ydrosacre], þat is maad of sugre & of watir.
c
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.431 : Wel knew he the olde Esculapius..Old Ypocras, Haly, and Galyen.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)21/9 : After Ypocras, alle sekenez ouþer is termyned after þe mouyng of þe mone or of þe son.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)2481 : In whoos tyme Regnyd ypocras, Expert in phesyk and Astronomye.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ipocras.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ypocras.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)1514 : Our leche, our Galian, our gostly ypocras, Our Sampson callid that venquysshid the leon, Our myhti chaumpion, the famous strong Athlas, That bar vp heuen for our salvacion, Hih on the cros makyng our raunson: He that ye sauh was the same man, In your Avisioun, that ovircam Sathan.
- a1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)3829 : He may be callid a leche verrayly Which hath practised so hih a medicyne, Sich mortal hurtis to cur them sodeynly, Whos Roial bawme is Roial [read: hevenly] & dyuyne; Galliene cowde nat ymagyne, Nor ypocras, duryng al ther lives, Sich consowdis nor so sich sanatives.
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