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Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.

Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

Having the property of condensing.

To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Con`quas*sa"tion, n. [Obs.]

A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. [R.] Dr. H. More.

General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.

A conversationist.

Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. [Obs.] Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.

A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.

One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.

ith men; social; -- opposed to contemplative. She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth. Sir H. Wotton.

A cross in the shape of the ankh.

To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.

wing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.

In a decussate manner.

angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.

Intersecting at acute angles. Sir T. Browne.

Crosswise; in the form of an X. "Anointed decussatively." Sir T. Browne.

That which serves to protect or defend.