What does inspissate mean?
Definitions for inspissate
ɪnˈspɪs eɪtin·spis·sate
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Princeton's WordNet
thicken, inspissateverb
make viscous or dense
"thicken the sauce by adding flour"
thicken, inspissateverb
make thick or thicker
"Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
thicken, inspissateverb
become thick or thicker
"The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"
Wiktionary
inspissateverb
To thicken, especially by boiling, evaporation, or condensation; condense.
inspissateverb
To become viscous.
Etymology: * From īnspissāre, "to thicken".
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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.
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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
Inspissateverb
to thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation
Inspissateadjective
thick or thickened; inspissated
Etymology: [L. inspissatus, p. p.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Inspissate
in-spis′āt, v.t. to thicken by the evaporation of moisture, as the juices of plants.—n. Inspissā′tion. [L. in, in, spissāre—spissus, thick.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of inspissate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of inspissate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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