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Inspissate

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To Inspíssate. v.a. [in and spissus, Lat.] To thicken; to make thick.

Sugar doth inspissate the spirits of the wine, and maketh them not so easy to resolve into vapour. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

This oil farther inspissated by evaporation, turns by degrees into balm. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

Sources: Arbuthnot, John (227) · Bacon, Francis (396)

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