Meanings
present singular third person incrassates · participle present incrassating · participle past incrassated · past incrassated
- ambitransitivearchaicTo thicken, condense.
Some finde sepulchrall Vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies.
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 211 more example
For since it is of the Nature of Acids to dissolve or attenuate, and of Alcalies to precipitate or incrassate[…]
1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th edition, book 2, part 3, St. Paul's: William Innys, published 1730, page 231
- not comparablebiologyMade thick or thicker; swelled out at some particular part, like the antennae of certain insects, or the leaves of the houseleek.
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Origin
From the participle stem of Latin incrassare, from in- + crassare ‘make thick’, from crassus.
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