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Inspissate

verb
(past & past part. inspissated; pres. part. inspissating)
1.
Make viscous or dense.  Synonym: thicken.
2.
Make thick or thicker.  Synonym: thicken.  "Inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
3.
Become thick or thicker.  Synonym: thicken.  "The egg yolk will inspissate"






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"Inspissate" Quotes from Famous Books



... solidify, solidate^; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify &c (harden) 323. condense, thicken, gel, inspissate^, incrassate^; compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate. Adj. dense, solid; solidified &c v.; caseous; pukka^; coherent, cohesive &c 46; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish^; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... Manyuema tribe, called Bagenya, occupy the left bank, opposite Nyangwe. A spring of brine rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market. The Lomame is about ten days west of Lualaba, and very large; the confluence of Lomame, or Loeki, is about six days down below Nyangwe by canoe; the river ...
— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 • David Livingstone



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