incrassate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin incrassare, from in- + crassare ‘make thick’, from crassus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈkɹæseɪt/

Verb

incrassate (third-person singular simple present incrassates, present participle incrassating, simple past and past participle incrassated)

  1. (now rare) To thicken, condense.
    • 1658: Some finde sepulchrall Vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
    • Sir Isaac Newton
      Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate.

Adjective

incrassate (comparative more incrassate, superlative most incrassate)

  1. (botany, zoology) Made thick or thicker; swelled out at some particular part, like the antennae of certain insects.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for incrassate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

incrassāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of incrassō
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