What does inspissate mean?

Definitions for inspissate
ɪnˈspɪs eɪtin·spis·sate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thicken, inspissateverb

    make viscous or dense

    "thicken the sauce by adding flour"

  2. thicken, inspissateverb

    make thick or thicker

    "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"

  3. thicken, inspissateverb

    become thick or thicker

    "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"

Wiktionary

  1. inspissateverb

    To thicken, especially by boiling, evaporation, or condensation; condense.

  2. inspissateverb

    To become viscous.

  3. Etymology: * From īnspissāre, "to thicken".

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Inspissateverb

    To thicken; to make thick.

    Etymology: in and spissus, Lat.

    Sugar doth inspissate the spirits of the wine, and maketh them not so easy to resolve into vapour. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    This oil farther inspissated by evaporation, turns by degrees into balm. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

Wikipedia

  1. inspissate

    Inspissation is the process of increasing the viscosity of a fluid, or even of causing it to solidify, typically by dehydration or otherwise reducing its content of solvents. The term also has been applied to coagulation by heating of some substances such as albumens, or cooling some such as solutions of gelatin or agar. Some forms of inspissation may be reversed by re-introducing solvent, such as by adding water to molasses or gum arabic; in other forms, its resistance to flow may include cross-linking or mutual adhesion of its component particles or molecules, in ways that prevent their dissolving again, such as in the irreversible setting or gelling of some kinds of rubber latex, egg-white, adhesives, or coagulation of blood.

ChatGPT

  1. inspissate

    To inspissate means to thicken or condense a substance, typically a liquid, by evaporation or by any other method such as adding other substances or agents.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inspissateverb

    to thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation

  2. Inspissateadjective

    thick or thickened; inspissated

  3. Etymology: [L. inspissatus, p. p.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Inspissate

    in-spis′āt, v.t. to thicken by the evaporation of moisture, as the juices of plants.—n. Inspissā′tion. [L. in, in, spissārespissus, thick.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inspissate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inspissate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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