Adjective: hydropical
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hydropical |
| Superlative | most hydropical |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like hydropical
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin hydropicus + -al. See: Latin Adjectives '
hydropicus'.