/hip"euh kras'/ , n.
an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
[ 1325-75; ME ypocras, appar. short for ypocras wyn (trans. of ML vinum hippocraticum; so called because clarified by filtering through a strainer named after Hippocrates); ME ypocras Hippocras, alter. of L Hippocrates, on model of words like civitas (nom.), civitatis (gen.) ]