incrassate

English

The hind femur of this adult male twig wilter bug is powerfully incrassate, and is armed with a triangular spike.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkɹæseɪt/

Verb

incrassate (third-person singular simple present incrassates, present participle incrassating, simple past and past participle incrassated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) To thicken, condense.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 21:

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

   • 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th edition, book 2, part 3, St. Paul's: William Innys, published 1730, page 231:

     For since it is of the Nature of Acids to dissolve or attenuate, and of Alcalies to precipitate or incrassate […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:thicken

Adjective

incrassate (comparative more incrassate, superlative most incrassate)

1. (botany, zoology) Made thick or thicker; swelled out at some particular part, like the antennae of certain insects.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incrassate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cartesians, Stainsacre, ascertains, sectarians

Latin

Verb

incrassāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incrassō