incrassated, ppl. a.
(ɪnˈkræseɪtɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
a. Thickened: esp. in Zool. and Bot. = incrassate a. 3.
| 1657–83 Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 143 The angels.. also lost their celestial natures,..and, becoming more incrassated, were thereby..penetrable by that fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 1806 J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 309 Siliques bent backward, flat, linear: with an incrassated margin. 1816 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 94 Its four posterior thighs are incrassated. 1857 Berkeley Cryptog. Botany §207. 218 The fruit consists of incrassated cells springing vertically from the frond. |
† b. Thickened in sound: used as = aspirated.
| 1668 Wilkins Real Char. 367 V Consonant: 'Tis of the same power which is commonly ascribed to B asperated, or rather incrassated. So the Western Jews pronounce their Letter ({hebbeth}) when not Dageshated. 1691 Ray Acc. Err. in Words 156 The sound we give to V Consonant, which is nothing else but B aspirated or incrassated or Bh. |