inspissate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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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
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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.
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 Compton MacKenzie
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 Alexander von Humboldt
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 Compton MacKenzie
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 George Bell
Humboldt informs us that the Curara is obtained from the bark of a tree called Vejuco de Mavacure; it is inspissated over a slow fire and then mixed with a gum drawn from the Kiracagnero.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Half a pint of warm water two or three times a day is much recommended to dilute the inspissated bile.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
They may be distinguished from those fluids, which are the consequence both of increased secretion and absorption, as these are attended with increase of warmth, and are inspissated by the abstraction of their aqueous parts.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The inspissated juice of limes or lemons, a powerful anti-scorbutic.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Succinum seu succum.—Dioscorides regarded amber as the inspissated juice of the poplar tree.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
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 Clive Bell
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 Clive Bell
That chiefly used as East Indian kino, is an extract formed by inspissating a decoction of the branches and twigs of the gambler plant.
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