incrassate

American  

[in-kras-eyt, in-kras-it, -eyt] / ɪnˈkræs eɪt, ɪnˈkræs ɪt, -eɪt /

verb (used with object)

incrassated, incrassating

1. Pharmacology.  to make (a liquid) thicker by addition of another substance or by evaporation.

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adjective

1. Botany, Entomology.  Also incrassated thickened or swollen.

incrassate British  

adjective

1. biology thickened or swollen

   incrassate cell walls

2. obsolete  fattened or swollen

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verb

1. obsolete  to make or become thicker

Other Word Forms

• incrassation noun
• incrassative adjective

Etymology

Origin of incrassate

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Late Latin incrassātus, past participle of incrassāre “to fatten, make thick,” derivative of crassus “thick, dense, stout, heavy, deep, opaque”; in- ², crass, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

How far the coagulating principle operateth in generation is evident from eggs wch will never incrassate without it.

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Had no schoolmaster in moments of heroic enthusiasm attempted to pound a few rules of rhetoric through my incrassate skull?

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Where, first of all he teacheth, that almost all those Medicines, which, to our sence, seeme to be Simple, are notwithstanding naturally Compounded, containing in themselves contrary qualities; and that is to say, a quality to expell, and to retaine; to incrassate, and attenuate; to rarifie, and to condense.

From Project Gutenberg

Closely resembling the female, but with the legs black; the posterior femora incrassate, the tibiæ narrow at their base and broadly dilated at their apex, which, as well as the calcaria, are pale testaceous.

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Thorax nearly flat above, very slightly convex with the sides margined, the anterior margin slightly rounded, the lateral angles produced into small acute spines; a deep strangulation at the base of the metathorax, a little before which the lateral margins are produced into an angular tooth, the metathorax with two short acute spines; the femora thickly incrassate.

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