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incrassate
[ verb in-kras-eyt; adjective in-kras-it, -eyt ]
verb (used with object)
- Pharmacology. to make (a liquid) thicker by addition of another substance or by evaporation.
adjective
- Also in·cras·sat·ed []. Botany, Entomology. thickened or swollen.
incrassate
adjective
- biology thickened or swollen
incrassate cell walls
- obsolete.fattened or swollen
verb
- obsolete.to make or become thicker
Derived Forms
- ˌincrasˈsation, noun
Other Words From
- in·cras·sa·tion [in-kras-, ey, -sh, uh, n], noun
- in·cras·sa·tive adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of incrassate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of incrassate1
Example Sentences
How far the coagulating principle operateth in generation is evident from eggs wch will never incrassate without it.
Had no schoolmaster in moments of heroic enthusiasm attempted to pound a few rules of rhetoric through my incrassate skull?
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.
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.
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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