inspissate

American  

[in-spis-eyt] / ɪnˈspɪs eɪt /

verb (used with or without object)

inspissated, inspissating

1. to thicken, as by evaporation; make or become dense.

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inspissate British  

/ ɪnˈspɪseɪt /

verb

1. archaic to thicken, as by evaporation

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Other Word Forms

• inspissation
  noun
• inspissator
  noun
• noninspissating
  adjective
• uninspissated
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of inspissate

First recorded in 1620–30; from Late Latin inspissātus, past participle of inspissāre “to thicken,” equivalent to Latin in- “in” + spissā(re) “to thicken” (derivative of spissus “thick”) + -tus past participle suffix; see in- ²

Example Sentences

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inspissate inspissated inspissating

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.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by Waller, Horace

For a minute or two he lay motionless trying to connect the noise with the present, trying to separate his faculties from the inspissate air that seemed to be throttling them.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

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.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

He moved nearer to the house and stood beneath Pauline's window; surely she was leaning out; surely that was her shadow tremulous on the inspissate air.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

The juice inspissate, drunk with wine, helps ague.

From Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

At the captain’s suggestion, wholesome beer was brewed from the leaves of a tree resembling the American black spruce, mixed with the inspissated juice of wort and molasses.

From Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Much mucus, of rather a saline taste, and less inspissated than usual, is evacuated from the fauces by hawking, owing to the deficient absorption of the thinner parts of it.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Ether with yolk of egg is recommended, as having a tendency to dissolve inspissated bile.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Horses are said to be subject to inspissated bile, with yellow eyes, in the winter season, and to get well as soon as they feed on the spring grass.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

It is seldom larger than a pea, and contains a pultaceous mass like inspissated pus.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Who is not familiar with those little flocks of victims clattering and shuffling through the galleries, inspissating the gloom of the museum atmosphere?

From Art by Bell, Clive

That chiefly used as East Indian kino, is an extract formed by inspissating a decoction of the branches and twigs of the gambler plant.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

To save ourselves from absurdity, and still more to save our painters from inspissating that trickle of fatuity which wells from heads swollen with hot air, critics should set themselves to check this nasty malady.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive