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▪ I. condensate, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.|kənˈdɛnsət|
Also 6 Sc. -at.
[ad. L. condensāt-us condensed, pa. pple. of condensāre to condense.]
1. Condensed, thickened, increased in density. (Formerly construed as a pple.)
1555Eden Decades 334 The which..is condensate and made thicke. 1570G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden Soc.) 84 A compacte and condensate bodye. 1689Packe tr. Glauber's Wks. I. 301 The Wine Cask which is to be filled with the condensate juice. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai ii. 72 The clouds..weigh down On Sinai's desert the condensate air.
†2. Densely covered, ‘thick’ (with). Obs.—1
1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 398 The mont with snaw was all sa condensat.
†3. fig.
15..Phylogamus in Skelton's Wks. (1862) I. p. cxxxiii, O poet rare and recent..Insolent and insensate, Contendyng and condensate.
▪ II. conˈdensate, n.
[f. prec.: see -ate1 1 c.]
A product of condensation.
1889W. Smith in Jrnl. Chem. Industry 31 Dec. 949/2 That naphtha laden with napthalene does condense in the mains is proved by an examination of the street-siphon condensates.
▪ III. condensate, v. Now rare or Obs.|kənˈdɛnseɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. condensāre to condense.]
1. trans. To make dense (in consistency), thicken, condense.
1555Eden Decades 211 Condensatynge or thyckenynge the sayde moyste nuryshemente. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. i. xv. (1678) 21 Friction..condensates, binds and hardens the flesh. 1689Packe tr. Glauber's Wks. i. 300 Wines may be condensated to the thickness of Honey.
fig.1664Hammond Serm. Wks. 1684 IV. 611 A little critical learning makes one proud; if there were more it would condensate and compact itself into less room.
b. To make dense (in aggregation), to crowd.
1830M. T. Sadler Law of Population, The different degrees in which the population is condensated.
2. intr. To become dense, thicken, condense; to become solid, harden.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 384 Some such like humor may issue out of them [poplars]..and condensate into a stone. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 536 Nitric acid..extends itself inconsiderably and soon condensates again.
†b. fig. To become intensified. Obs.
1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxii. 229 It being the propertie of griefe to condensate and as it were on all sides besiege the Minde.
Hence conˈdensated ppl. a.
1635N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. ii. 21 The thicker and condensated parts. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. ix. 316 Condensated juice of Cichory. |