Definition of "inspissate" [in•spis•sate]

• To undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation; condense. (verb-transitive)

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• "It has all the requisite soft consonants, and is probably as common and more useful for writers than "potamophilous" or "inspissate.""
• "A spring of brine rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market."
• "The juice inspissate, drunk with wine, helps ague."