inspissate

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inspissate (IN-spuh-sayt) - v.t., to thicken, esp. by boiling or evaporation; v.i., to thicken, become viscous.


What you do to soups. (NB: do not piss in soups.) Borrowed in the 1620s from the past participle of Late Latin īnspissāre, to thicken, from in-, a causative prefix + spissus, slow, dense, thick + verbalizer.

---L.

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*giggles like the twelve year old I never stopped being*

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