conspissation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin conspissatio, from inspissare (“to make thick”).
Noun edit
conspissation (uncountable)
- A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation.
- 1647, Henry More, Infinitie of Worlds:
- Of universall life each thing's deriv'd Whater'e appeareth in corporeall fashion;
For body's but this spirit, fixt, grosse by conspissation
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conspissation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)