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Webster 1913 Edition


Incrassate

In-cras′sate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Incrassated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Incrassating
.]
[L.
incrassatus
, p. p. of
incrassare
; pref.
in-
in +
crassus
thick.]
To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts.
Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or
incrassate
.
Sir I. Newton.
Liquors which time hath
incrassated
into jellies.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Incrassate

INCRAS'SATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. incrasso, incrassatus; in and crassus, thick.]
1.
To make thick or thicker; to thicken; the contrary to attenuate.
2.
In pharmacy, to make fluids thicker by the mixture of other substances less fluid, or by evaporating the thinner parts.
Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate.

INCRAS'SATE

,
Verb.
I.
To become thick or thicker.

INCRAS'SATE


Definition 2024


incrassate

incrassate

English

Verb

incrassate (third-person singular simple present incrassates, present participle incrassating, simple past and past participle incrassated)

  1. (now rare) To thicken, condense.
    • 1658: Some finde sepulchrall Vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
    • Sir Isaac Newton
      Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate.

Adjective

incrassate (comparative more incrassate, superlative most incrassate)

  1. (botany, zoology) Made thick or thicker; swelled out at some particular part, like the antennae of certain insects.

Anagrams


Latin

Verb

incrassāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of incrassō