Definition of "spissitude" []

• Density, thickness; the state or quality of being inspissated, thickened (used of liquids) (noun)

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• ""The spissitude sic! of the black liquor which is spread in such quantities by this writer," Adams wrote of Paine, "prevents its daubing.""
• "Is this difficulty of cure occasioned by spissitude in the effused fluids, by want of proper communication from cell to cell, or is the disease rather caused by a morbid growth of the solids, than by an accumulation of fluid?"
• "The spissitude of the bile is another cause of jaundice, as mentioned in"