Pronunciation: [in-'spi-seyt]
Definition: To thicken or condense (a liquid) through evaporation
[@more@]Usage: The verb itself is hardly used. The participle "inspissated" appears metaphorically as an adjective in the cliché "(an atmosphere of) inspissated gloom."
Suggested Usage: Most suggestions about usage in Word of the Day involve metaphorical uses of a word whose usual sense is literal. Here there is scope for the reverse innovation: in cookery recipes, the instruction, "Reduce over a low heat," could be abbreviated to the single word "Inspissate." New metaphorical uses also suggest themselves, e.g. to describe retaining the substance of a piece of writing but shortening its expression: "At 3000 words, this article is much too long. Please inspissate it to 1500."
Etymology: Latin inspissare from spissus "thick, dense, tightly packed" (the word from which French épais "thick" and Italian spesso "often" are also derived).
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