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Incrassate

//ɪnˈkɹæseɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made thick or thicker; swelled out at some particular part, like the antennae of certain insects, or the leaves of the house-leek.
Verb
  1. 1
    To thicken, condense. ambitransitive, archaic

    "Some finde sepulchrall Vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the participle stem of Latin incrassare, from in- + crassare ‘make thick’, from crassus.

Etymology 2

From the participle stem of Latin incrassare, from in- + crassare ‘make thick’, from crassus.

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