hippo crases

hip·po·cras

[hip-uh-kras]
noun
an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English ypocras, apparently short for ypocras wyn (translation of Medieval Latin vīnum hippocraticum; so called because clarified by filtering through a strainer named after Hippocrates); Middle English ypocras < Old French: Hippocrates < Medieval Latin Hippocrās, alteration of Latin Hippocratēs, on model of words like cīvitās (nominative), cīvitātis (genitive)

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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hippocras (ˈhɪpəʊˌkræs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
an old English drink of wine flavoured with spices
 
[C14 ypocras, from Old French: Hippocrates, probably referring to a filter called Hippocrates' sleeve]

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