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单词 inspissated
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inspissatedadj.

(see the verb.)
Etymology: < inspissate v. + -ed suffix1.
Brought to a thick consistence; thickened.
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viscatec1400
inspissate1603
incrassate1608
thickened?1611
inspissated1655
spissated1727
1655 in Ref. Commw. Bees 27 There is..a great difference to be acknowledged between Honey and other inspissated sweetnesses.
1800 Hatchett in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 387 Inspissated albumen.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. v. 165 The body of polypes is formed of a kind of inspissated mucus.
figurative.1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1769 I. 319 Johnson: In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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