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incrassate

[ verb in-kras-eyt; adjective in-kras-it, -eyt ]

verb (used with object)

incrassated, incrassating.
  1. Pharmacology. to make (a liquid) thicker by addition of another substance or by evaporation.


adjective

  1. Also ··· []. Botany, Entomology. thickened or swollen.

incrassate

adjective

  1. biology thickened or swollen

    incrassate cell walls

  2. obsolete.
    fattened or swollen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. obsolete.
    to make or become thicker
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌԳˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ···پDz [in-kras-, ey, -sh, uh, n], noun
  • ···پ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of incrassate1

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Late Latin Գٳܲ, past participle of Գ “to fatten, make thick,” derivative of crassus “thick, dense, stout, heavy, deep, opaque”; in- 2, crass, -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of incrassate1

C17: from Late Latin Գ, from Latin crassus thick, dense
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

How far the coagulating principle operateth in generation is evident from eggs wch will never incrassate without it.

From

Had no schoolmaster in moments of heroic enthusiasm attempted to pound a few rules of rhetoric through my incrassate skull?

From

Where, first of all he teacheth, that almost all those Medicines, which, to our sence, seeme to be Simple, are notwithstanding naturally Compounded, containing in themselves contrary qualities; and that is to say, a quality to expell, and to retaine; to incrassate, and attenuate; to rarifie, and to condense.

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Closely resembling the female, but with the legs black; the posterior femora incrassate, the tibiæ narrow at their base and broadly dilated at their apex, which, as well as the calcaria, are pale testaceous.

From

Thorax nearly flat above, very slightly convex with the sides margined, the anterior margin slightly rounded, the lateral angles produced into small acute spines; a deep strangulation at the base of the metathorax, a little before which the lateral margins are produced into an angular tooth, the metathorax with two short acute spines; the femora thickly incrassate.

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