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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inspissate . - adjective
thickened ordried byevaporation
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Examples
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It was what the poets mean by an 'inspissated' gloom; it thickened day by day, as hope and self-confidence evaporated in thin clouds of disappointment.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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It's like inspissated essence of urinal cake, it's just so flowery and hygenic.
An essay about how when you're reading a Kindle in public, people don't see what book you're reading. Ann Althouse 2009
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During this time the rag, adhering by means of a crust of inspissated blood collected beneath it, has continued perfectly dry, and it will be left untouched till the usual period for removing the splints in a simple fracture, when we may fairly expect to find a sound cicatrix beneath it.
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During this time the rag, adhering by means of a crust of inspissated blood collected beneath it, has continued perfectly dry, and it will be left untouched till the usual period for removing the splints in a simple fracture, when we may fairly expect to find a sound cicatrix beneath it.
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The sturdy English soul reacting after the first cried, ‘Ah! but Methuen!’ after the second: ‘Ah! but Buller!’ then, in inspissated gloom, hardened.
In Chancery 2004
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Captain Cook was persuaded, from the knowledge which he had of this tree, and from the similarity it bore to the spruce, that, with the addition of inspissated juice of wort and molasses, it would make a very wholesome liquor, and supply the want of vegetables, of which the country was destitute.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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As he proceeded in his voyage, he made three puncheons of beer of the inspissated juice of malt; and the liquor produced was very brisk and drinkable.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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The poison is obtained by boiling the root in water, until it attains the consistency of an inspissated juice.
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As he proceeded in his voyage, he made three puncheons of beer of the inspissated juice of malt; and the liquor produced was very brisk and drinkable.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Captain Cook was persuaded, from the knowledge which he had of this tree, and from the similarity it bore to the spruce, that, with the addition of inspissated juice of wort and molasses, it would make a very wholesome liquor, and supply the want of vegetables, of which the country was destitute.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
slumry commented on the word inspissated
Thickened, as by evaporation
July 18, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word inspissated
In Braille:
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or the beginning cryptographer's substitution cypher:
4348535043535335543938
January 15, 2009
txpasley commented on the word inspissated
Thick or thickened in consistency.
June 26, 2009
chubberdog commented on the word inspissated
as was lemon juice carried by British men-of-war as an anti-scorbutic
August 11, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word inspissated
"She swam in mangrove swamps, amongst the maze of roots in the mud, snapping up fiddler-crabs and mudskippers, spitting shell into the inspissated mess of mud, leaf skeletons, seaweed."
Ragnarök by A.S. Byatt, p 66
May 6, 2012