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The process of thickening by dehydration
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inspissation
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inspissation \In`spis*sa"tion\, n. The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.
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n. The act of thickening. The process by which something is inspissated.
WordNet
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n. the process of thickening by dehydration the act of thickening [syn: thickening ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Inspissation is the process of thickening by dehydration .
Usage examples of inspissation.
From sunfall till the setting of Scorpio, which occurred well after midnight at that season, it had been my duty to tend the gradual inspissation of a decoction of scarabs, much favored by Mior Lumivix in the compounding of his most requested love-potions.