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noun
Hyp  n.  An abbreviation of hypochonaria; usually in plural. (Colloq.) "Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps."



verb
Hyp  v. t.  To make melancholy. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hyp" Quotes from Famous Books



... arrangement is termed hypthral, from an expression used in a description by Vitruvius;[9] but this description corresponds to no known structure, and the weight of opinion now inclines against the use of the hypthral opening, except possibly in one or two of the largest temples, in which a part of the cella in front of the statue may have been thus left open. But even this partial hypthros is not substantiated by direct evidence. It hardly seems probable that the ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin

... passage is scarcely satisfactory, but I have followed Paley. Perhaps if we place a comma after [Greek: hyperterou], and treat [Greek: hos andr. d. hyp. eutych.] as a genitive absolute, there will be less abruptness, [Greek: elpis esti] standing for [Greek: ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

... Hebrew Lexicon, on the noun,) "there was this necessarily attached; that he spoke not his own words, but those which he had divinely received; (see Philo, t. iv. p. 116, ed. Pfeifferi,—prophts gar idion men ouden apophthengetai, allotria de panta hypchountos heterou); and that he was the messenger of GOD, and the declarer of His will. This is clear from a passage of peculiar authority in this matter, (Ex. vii. 1,)—where GOD says to Moses,—'I have made thee a god to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... make emergency contacts only through some blind accommodation-address. The men who are running this are right on Home Time Line, many of them in positions of prominence, and if we can catch one of them and narco-hyp him, we can start a chain-reaction of disclosures all ...
— Time Crime • H. Beam Piper

... scarcely satisfactory, but I have followed Paley. Perhaps if we place a comma after [Greek: hyperterou], and treat [Greek: hos andr. d. hyp. eutych.] as a genitive absolute, there will be less abruptness, [Greek: elpis esti] standing for [Greek: ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus



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