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INSPISSATE DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
INSPISSATE was my What's The Word? choice for Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008
inspissate v 1: make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" [syn: thicken, inspissate] 2: make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 3: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) inspissate transitive verb (-sated; -sating) Etymology: Late Latin inspissatus, past participle of inspissare, from Latin in- + spissus slow, dense; akin to Greek spidnos compact, Lithuanian spisti to form a swarm Date: 1626 to make thick or thicker • inspissation noun • inspissator noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary inspissate ɪnˈspɪseɪt v.tr. literary thicken; condense. øøinspissation n. [LL inspissare inspissat- (as IN-(2), L spissus thick)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Inspissate \In*spis"sate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inspissated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inspissating.] [L. inspissatus, p. p. of inspissare to thicken; pref. in- + spissare to thicken, fr. spissus thick.] To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Inspissate \In*spis"sate\, a. [L. inspissatus, p. p.] Thick or thickened; inspissated. --Greenhill. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms inspissate I. v. a. Thicken, make thick. II. a. Thick, inspissated. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 49 Moby Thesaurus words for "inspissate": beat up, cake, caked, cakey, churn, clabber, clabbered, clot, clotted, clump, cluster, coagulate, coagulated, colloid, colloidize, concrete, congeal, congealed, cream, curd, curded, curdle, curdled, emulsify, emulsionize, fatten, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, gelatinized, grow thick, grumous, incrassate, inspissated, jell, jelled, jellied, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper, lump, lumpish, lumpy, set, thick, thicken, thickened, whip |
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