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Definition of Inspissates

1. inspissate [v] - See also: inspissate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inspissates

Literary usage of Inspissates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"INSPISSATE, to make thick, as fluids. (L.) 'The sugar doth inspissate the spirits of the wine;' Bacon, Nat. Hist. § 726. — Lat. inspissates, pp. of ..."

2. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"Tar-water moderately inspissates with its balsamic virtue, and renders mild the thin and sharp part of the blood, the same as a soapy medicine dissolves the ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1850)
"... is its relation to chromate of potash, which communicates to it л deep red-brown colour, and inspissates it into a coagulum more like an extract than a ..."

4. The goede vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at home and in society, 1609-1760 by John King Van Rensselaer (1898)
"He mentions in his book "that tar water moderately inspissates with its balsamic virtue, and renders mild the thin and ..."

5. The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at Home and in Society, 1609-1760 by John King Van Rensselaer (1898)
"He mentions in his book "that tar water moderately inspissates with its balsamic virtue, and renders mild the thin and sharp part of the blood, ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"... he inspissates the juice to (while hot) 15° B. ; and having then drawn it off into a tank to settle for an hour or two, he afterward runs it thence into ..."

7. Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern by Walter Savage Landor, Graeme Mercer Adam (1901)
"His greatest fault is, that he so condenses his thoughts as to render it difficult to see through them : he inspissates his yellow into black. ..."

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