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. (ambitransitive, 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

Derived terms

• incrassative

Adjective

incrassate (not comparable)

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

References

• “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