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v. - Become thick or thicker; Make thick or thicker; Make viscous or dense.

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  • It has all the requisite soft consonants, and is probably as common and more useful for writers than "potamophilous" or "inspissate."
  • The juice inspissate, drunk with wine, helps ague.
  • Heroin, morphine and opium are inspissate juices and narcotic poisons in the genus of poppies, called Papaver.
  • A spring of brine rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market.
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