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▪ I. incrassate, a.|ɪnˈkræsət|
[ad. L. incrassātus, pa. pple. of incrassāre: see next.]
†1. Thickened (in consistence); condensed. Obs.
1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 121 The aire..was incrassate and thickned. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N. Test. Heb. xi. 3 That Earth is but incrassate Humor, and Humor (or Water) incrassate Air, and Air incrassate Fire, and Fire incrassate vegetative Spirit, and that incrassate intellectual Spirit.
†2. fig. Of the mind: Dulled, made gross. Obs.
1659Hammond On Ps. cxix. 70 Their heart is incrassate and grosse. a1660― Serm. Wks. 1684 IV. xiv. 657 Their understandings were so gross within them, being fatned and incrassate with magical phantasms.
3. Zool. and Bot. Of a thickened or swollen form.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. (1765) 225 The Peduncle or Flower-stalk..is said to be..Incrassate, thickened towards the Flower. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 260 Incrassate, disproportionably thick in part. Ibid. 294 Margin..Incrassate, when the margin is disproportionably thick. 1847J. Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 5. 248 Antennæ short, incrassate. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 382 Femora often incrassate.
▪ II. incrassate, v.|ɪnˈkræseɪt|
[f. L. incrassāt-, ppl. stem of incrassāre to thicken, f. in- (in-2) + crassāre to make thick, f. crassus crass.]
1. trans. To thicken in consistence; to condense, inspissate. Now rare.
1601Holland Pliny II. 255 The nature of the seed is astringent: it doth incrassat and thicken humors. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 23 Liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies. 1709Blair in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 74 That does not hinder its Blood from being incrassated by Cold and bad Dyet. 1864Alger Future Life i. i. 8 Incrassated and clogged with vapors and steams.
b. absol.
1601Holland Pliny II. 194 That [gum]..is of a stronger operation to thicken and incrassat. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 96 'Tis reckon'd to cool and incrassate.
†c. intr. To grow thick, to become condensed.
1733Cheyne Eng. Malady i. iii. §7 (1734) 21 These naturally subtile Parts..incrassate and grow clumsy.
†2. fig. To make gross (the mind, etc.); to dull, stupefy. Obs.
a1660Hammond Serm. Wks. 1684 IV. xiii. 651 Their spirits fatned and incrassated within them. 1666Spurstowe Spir. Chym. Pref. (1668) 6 Men that have incrassated their souls.
†3. To thicken in sound: see incrassated b.
4. To thicken in form: see incrassated a.
Hence inˈcrassating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1620Venner Via Recta viii. 170 Some meats..are of an attenuating and soluble faculty..; and some of an incrassating, and an astringent. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 265 In the Case of incrassating or thickening. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 179 Of a cooling, incrassating, and agglutinating nature. 1771J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (ed. 4) Dict., Pachuntica, incrassating Medicines. |