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Incrassate


INCRAS'SATE, verb transitive [Latin incrasso, incrassatus; in and crassus, thick.]

1. To make thick or thicker; to thicken; the contrary to attenuate.

2. In pharmacy, to make fluids thicker by the mixture of other substances less fluid, or by evaporating the thinner parts.

Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate

INCRAS'SATE, verb intransitive To become thick or thicker.

INCRAS'SATE