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dropsical

[drop-si-kuhl]

adjective

  1. of, like, or affected with dropsy.



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Other Word Forms

  • dropsically adverb
  • dropsicalness noun
  • nondropsical adjective
  • nondropsically adverb
  • undropsical adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dropsical1

First recorded in 1670–80; drops(y) + -ical
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His skin was dead looking and hairless; dropsical too, he moved with a shambling gait like a trained bear.

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At the end of the table, sitting like a great dropsical gray slug, was William Willoughby, the political symbol of everything her father and men like him despised.

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Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

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The dropsical dilatations of the antrum, the vermiform appendage, the uterus, the biliary and renal canals furnish instances of tumors resulting from the retention of secretion on a large scale.

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Then follows a paragraph from the sermon, dropsical with dullness; and here the article ends.

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