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To make thick or thicker; thicken; specifically, in pharmacy, to make thicker, as a fluid, by the mixture of something less fluid, or by evaporating the more fluid parts. Some find sepulchral vessels containing liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne, Urn-burial, iii. Of such concernment too is drink and food, To incrassate and attenuate the blood. Dryden, tr. of Lucretius, iv.
To become thick or thicker. Their spirits fattened and incrassated within them. Hammond, Works, IV. 651.
Thickened, or made thick or thicker; inspissated; fattened; swollen from fatness. Their understandings were so gross within them, being fattened and incrassate with magical phantasms. Hammond, Works, IV. 657.

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Abdomen ovate, the node of the petiole incrassate, and viewed sideways is triangular or wedge-shaped. — Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Abdomen ovate, the scale of the petiole incrassate and slightly notched above. — Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The node of the petiole incrassate, very slightly elevated; viewed sideways, broadly wedge-shaped; the abdomen ovate. — Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Abdomen ovate, the node of the peduncle elevated, incrassate, rounded anteriorly, and flat behind. — Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Abdomen ovate; the scale incrassate, armed above with two stout acute teeth. — Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology

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from Late Latin incrassatus, past participle of incrassare (later Portuguese incrassar = Spanish incrasar), make thick, from Latin in, in, + crassare, make thick, from crassus, thick: see crass.
= Portuguese incrassado, from Late Latin incrassatus, past participle: see the verb.

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