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单词 inspissate
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inspissateadj.

Etymology: < late Latin inspissātus past participle (Vegetius, c420), < inspissāre to thicken: see inspissate v.
Obsolete.
Inspissated, thickened.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] > thickened
viscatec1400
inspissate1603
incrassate1608
thickened?1611
inspissated1655
spissated1727
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1006 The aire of rivers being always grosse and heavy, in Winter is more inspissate by reason of the circumstant cold.
1657 Physical Dict. Inspissate juyce, is the juyce of some herb boyled to the thickness of honey.
1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory i. i. 14 Much safer for Horses..than Scammony, and other Gums and inspissate Juices.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

inspissatev.

Brit. /ɪnˈspɪseɪt/, /ˈɪnspᵻseɪt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈspɪˌseɪt/, /ˈɪnspəˌseɪt/
Etymology: < late Latin inspissāre (Boethius), < in- (in- prefix3) + spissāre to thicken, spissus thick.
1. transitive. To thicken, condense.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > make viscous or thicken [verb (transitive)]
engleima1387
inviscatec1400
treaclec1500
mud1593
incrassate1601
inspissate1626
glutinize1750
syrup1847
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §726 The Sugar doth inspissate the Spirits of the Wine, and maketh them not so easie to resolue into Vapour.
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 141 Manna is first a liquid dew, and after inspissated by a vertue of the tree, or plant on which it falls.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §16 Pitch is tar inspissated.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) x. 170 Whatever tends to inspissate sap..has the property of causing..flower-buds to be produced.
figurative.1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 249 When the Subject is limpid of it self, he frequently inspissates it, by throwing in a heap of Circumstances not Essential to it.1884 E. E. Hale Christmas in Narragansett v. 117 No method..by which you can inspissate entertainingness into a dull article.
2. intransitive. To become thick or dense, to thicken.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > become viscous or thicken [verb (intransitive)]
thicka1000
encrass1611
inspissate1756
plaster1812
viscidize1859
gum1874
1756 J. Wathen in Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 214 It is..liable to inspissate by heat.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xvii. 225 Until the yolk..has time to inspissate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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