What's the difference between hippocaust and hypocaust?

Hippocaust


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Hypocaust


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  • (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

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  • (1) "He's a powerful and original thinker, and to involve myself in the hypocaust of his imagination is toxic for my own work."

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