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

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

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

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

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

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 Horace Waller

As he proceeded in his voyage, he made three puncheons of beer of the inspissated juice of malt; and the liquor produced was very brisk and drinkable.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

Catechu, the inspissated juice of a plant or plants, which comes to us from India, also gives rich and useful permanent browns of various shades.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

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

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

Hypocist, hī′po-sist, n. an inspissated juice from a parasitic plant of the cytinus family.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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 P. L. Simmonds

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

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