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The offering of incense. [R.] Encyc. Brit.

evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.

Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne.

Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. Harvey.

Indorsement. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire. "Insatiable of glory." Milton.

Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability. The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall.

In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably. "Insatiably covetous." South.

Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.

Insatiably. Sir T. Herbert.

The state of being insatiate.

Insatiableness. T. Grander.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.

sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

Thick or thickened; inspissated. Greenhill.

The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.

To intensify. [R.] Emerson.