hippocras means 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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
hippocras is pronounced /ˈhɪ.pəʊ.kɹæs/.
Why “hippocras” is a great word
HIPPOCRAS — [Noun] A spiced and sweetened cordial wine of medieval origin, filtered before consumption. From Middle English ypocras, from Old French ipocras, ypocras, from Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum ("Hippocrates's wine"), named for its filtration through a Hippocratic sleeve. Unlike "mulled wine," which is typically a heated and spiced infusion, or "liqueur," a distilled and sweetened spirit, hippocras is a deliberate, clarified alchemy of the apothecary’s art. It is the slow, crimson drip through a linen bag, the complex perfume of cinnamon, long pepper, and grains of paradise rising from a chased silver cup, and the medicinal sweetness that perfects the murky ferment—a libation where ceremony and clarity were one purified, calculated pleasure.
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- 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.“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.”