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incrassate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnˈkɹæseɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Made thick or thicker; swelled out at some particular part, like the antennae of certain insects, or the leaves of the houseleek.

incrassate en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnˈkɹæseɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To thicken, condense.
    • Some finde sepulchrall Vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies. 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 21:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
incrassates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
incrassating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
incrassated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
incrassated Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

incrassative