adj
Meaning 1
Thickened or dried by evaporation.
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inspissated
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adj
Meaning 2
Concentrated or accentuated.
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Usage: figuratively
Examples
- Fresh from the furnace glare, I can see nothing in this inspissated gloom. (James Bridie pseudonym Osborne Henry Mavor, A Change for the Worse, 1943)
- I watched the right hon. Gentleman's face as his predecessor spoke this afternoon and I have never seen such inspissated gloom etched on a human visage in my life. When the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) said that she planned to support him in the next election, he must have been reminded of Lenin's promise to support the social democrats as the rope supports the hanged man. (Denis Healey, speaking in the UK House of Commons, 26 June 1991)
- As for the Great Reform Bill itself, his gloom was inspissatedː "I cannot see what is to save Church, or property, or colonies, or union with Ireland, or eventually monarchy, if the Reform Bill passes." (Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement 21 August 2015 page 4, referring to the Duke of Wellington)
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verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of inspissate
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Usage: form-of, participle, past
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