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Inspissation

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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inspissation

n. The act of thickening. The process by which something is inspissated.

WordNet
inspissation
  1. n. the process of thickening by dehydration

  2. the act of thickening [syn: thickening]

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Inspissation

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.