Incrassate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incrassate \In*cras"sate\, v. 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.


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           Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or
           incrassate.                              --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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           Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. --Sir
                                                    T. Browne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incrassate \In*cras"sate\, v. i.
     To become thick or thicker. Incrassate

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incrassate \In*cras"sate\, Incrassated \In*cras"sa*ted\, a. [L.
     incrassatus, p. p.]
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     1. Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.
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     2. (Bot.) Thickened; becoming thicker. --Martyn.
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     3. (Zool.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the
        antenn[ae] of certain insects.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "incrassate":
     beat up, bloated, blown up, cake, caked, cakey, churn, clabber,
     clabbered, clot, clotted, clump, cluster, coagulate, coagulated,
     colloid, colloidize, concrete, congeal, congealed, cream, curd,
     curded, curdle, curdled, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous,
     emulsify, emulsionize, enchymatous, fat, fatten, flatulent, gassy,
     gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, gelatinized, grow thick, grumous,
     inflated, inspissate, inspissated, jell, jelled, jellied, jellify,
     jelly, knot, lopper, lump, lumpish, lumpy, plethoric, puffed up,
     puffy, pursy, set, swelled, swollen, thick, thicken, thickened,
     tumid, turgid, ventose, whip, windy