Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation; condense.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thicken, as a fluid, by evaporation; bring to greater consistence by evaporation.
- Thick; inspissated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.
- adjective Thick or thickened; inspissated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
thicken , especially byboiling ,evaporation , orcondensation ;condense . - verb intransitive To become
viscous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make viscous or dense
- verb become thick or thicker
- verb make thick or thicker
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It has all the requisite soft consonants, and is probably as common and more useful for writers than "potamophilous" or "inspissate."
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It has all the requisite soft consonants, and is probably as common and more useful for writers than "potamophilous" or "inspissate."
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A spring of brine rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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The juice inspissate, drunk with wine, helps ague.
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In these troughs the eggs, broken and stirred with shovels, remain exposed to the sun till the oily part, which swims on the surface, has time to inspissate.
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In these troughs the eggs, broken and stirred with shovels, remain exposed to the sun till the oily part, which swims on the surface, has time to inspissate.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The Soldiers which were kept on the Land Frontiers, to clear them of the Indians, taking their Range through a Piece of low Ground, about Forty Miles above the inhabited Parts of Patowmeck River, and resting themselves in the Woods of those low Grounds, observ'd an inspissate Juice, like Molasses, distilling from the Tree.
The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
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Heroin, morphine and opium are inspissate juices and narcotic poisons in the genus of poppies, called Papaver.
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Sir C Bunbury Esq and 20 others, I do not mean that these persons wrote to me (they did not except Mr Lofft) but were often sending queries by servants &c which as I never would be seen if I could help it caused me to lose much time and slur a great deal of beautiful white paper, the private friendship and assistance I received from Bob amply paid me for my loss of time &c. and when they prevailed on me to be a Master (in that which is now Mrs Armstrong the Hatters shop) my Sheepishness increased so as to inspissate me, And besides it pleased God to take from me my Excelant wife.
Letter 423 2009
sionnach commented on the word inspissate
it sounds more vulgar than it is, folks!
February 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word inspissate
Indeed! It's on my "Not Quite As Awful As They Sound" list! :-)
February 17, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word inspissate
Yeah, sometimes I make white sauce and have to wait for it to inspissate.
Eeew. That does sound gross.
February 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word inspissate
Wow. And then you *eat* it?
February 21, 2007
sera commented on the word inspissate
"Letting citizens sue polluters ... would only inspissate the logjam of litigation." (The New York Times, August 5, 1985)
August 14, 2007
arby commented on the word inspissate
It sounds like it should mean "to piss off". BTW Roget (via Bartleby) says a synonym is incrassate.
June 27, 2008