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inspissated, ppl. a.
(see the vb.)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Brought to a thick consistence; thickened.
1655in Ref. Commw. Bees 27 There is..a great difference to be acknowledged between Honey and other inspissated sweetnesses. 1800Hatchett in Phil. Trans. XC. 387 Inspissated albumen. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. v. 165 The body of polypes is formed of a kind of inspissated mucus.
fig.1769Johnson in Boswell 16 Oct., In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom. |