Now rare. [L.] Flat or sour wine. Also fig.
[1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 424. Whereupon it getteth the name of Vappa, and is cleane turned to bee dead or soure.]
1629. H. Burton, Babel no Bethel, 69. Rome or Trent hath made a dead vappa of the word of God.
1631. Massinger, Believe as You List, IV. i. Your viper wine [is] … But vappa to the nectar of her lippe.
1666. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual., 202. Whether Must, Wine, spirit of Wine, Vinegar, Tartar, and Vappa, be specifically distinct Bodies?
1840. De Quincey, Wks. (1862), X. 217. But how that can be, when you recollect the philosophic Vappa of Xenophon, seems to pass the deciphering power of Œdipus.
transf. 1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., Vappa,… a peculiar state of the blood, when it is in a low, dispirited condition.
