Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of inspissating, or the state of being inspissated; increased consistence, as of a fluid substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of thickening. The
process by which something isinspissated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of thickening by dehydration
- noun the act of thickening
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Examples
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When cold, it should have a density of about 1.38, and mark the 38th degree of Baume's hydrometer; beyond which point of inspissation it would be dangerous to go.
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There was no mystery as to its genesis in either region, as it had been shown to be the result of inspissation of
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various
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As I returned, there was, in the phraseology of that most precise of prigs in a white collarless coat and _chapeau bas_, Mister Commissary Ramsay -- "a rather dense inspissation of rain."
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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