| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts.[Websters]
2. To become thick or thicker.[Websters] 3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: incrassating, incrassated, incrassates, incrassater, incrassaters, incrassatingly and incrassatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. An alternative spelling for "Incrassated": Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.[Websters]
2. Being bulgy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb incrassately.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (incrassately) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective incrassate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "INCRASSATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: INCRASSATE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To make thick or thicker; to thicken; the contrary to attenuate.. | 2: [Verb] In pharmacy, to make fluids thicker by the mixture of other substances less fluid, or by evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate.. | 3: [Verb] To become thick or thicker. INCRAS'SATE. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Geology | Thickened; of a pollen grain, with thickened margins around the apertures. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] (now, rare) To thicken, condense. 1658: Some finde sepulchrall Vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into gellies. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
