Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Density; the denseness or compactness which belongs to substances not perfectly liquid nor perfectly solid; inspissated condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being spissated.
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- noun
density ,thickness ; the state or quality of beinginspissated ,thickened (used of liquids)
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The spissitude sic! of the black liquor which is spread in such quantities by this writer," Adams wrote of Paine, "prevents its daubing."
William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality William Hogeland 2011
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"The spissitude sic! of the black liquor which is spread in such quantities by this writer," Adams wrote of Paine, "prevents its daubing."
William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality William Hogeland 2011
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Is this difficulty of cure occasioned by spissitude in the effused fluids, by want of proper communication from cell to cell, or is the disease rather caused by a morbid growth of the solids, than by an accumulation of fluid?
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770
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The spissitude of the bile is another cause of jaundice, as mentioned in
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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It is distinguished from the fluor albus frigidus by the increased sense of warmth in the part, and by the greater opacity or spissitude of the material discharged; as the thinner parts are reabsorbed by the increased action of the absorbents, along with the saline part, whence no smarting or excoriation attends it.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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But the publicans frequently, when they fine a butt of beer, by means of isinglass, adulterate the porter at the same time with table beer, together with a quantity of molasses and a small portion of extract of gentian root, to keep up the peculiar flavour of the porter; and it is to the molasses chiefly, which gives a spissitude to the beer, that the frothing property must be ascribed; for, without it, the sulphate of iron does not produce the property of frothing in diluted beer.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Friedrich Christian Accum 1803
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As for the spissitude and thickness of the Blood, (which no where appears more than in the Vena Porice and its Ramifications in the
sionnach commented on the word spissitude
To impart to porter this property of frothing when poured from one vessel into another, or to produce what is also termed a _cauliflower head_, the mixture called _beer-heading_, composed of common green vitriol (sulphate of iron,) alum, and salt, is added. This addition tothe beer is generally made by the publicans. It is unnecessary togenuine beer, which of itself possesses the property of bearing a strongwhite froth, without these additions; and it is only in consequence of table beer being mixed with strong beer, that the frothing property of the porter is lost. From experiments I have tried on this subject, I have reason to believe that the sulphate of iron, added for that purpose, does not possess the power ascribed to it. But the publicans frequently, when they fine a butt of beer, by means of isinglass, adulterate the porter at the same time with table beer, together with a quantity of molasses and a small portion of extract of gentian root, to keep up the peculiar flavour of the porter; and it is to the molasses chiefly, which gives a spissitude to the beer, that the frothing property must be ascribed; for, without it, the sulphate of iron does not produce the property of frothing in diluted beer.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and
Culinary Poisons, by Fredrick Accum
June 24, 2009