Obs. or arch. Also 6 Sc. -at. [ad. L. condensāt-us condensed, pa. pple. of condensāre to CONDENSE.]
1. Condensed, thickened, increased in density. (Formerly construed as a pple.)
1555. Eden, Decades, 334. The which … is condensate and made thicke.
1570. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden Soc.), 84. A compacte and condensate bodye.
1689. Packe, trans. Glauber’s Wks., I. 301. The Wine Cask which is to be filled with the condensate juice.
1830. W. Phillips, Mt. Sinai, II. 72. The clouds … weigh down On Sinai’s desert the condensate air.
† 2. Densely covered, ‘thick’ (with). Obs.–1
1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, II. 398. The mont with snaw was all sa condensat.
† 3. fig.
15[?]. Phylogamus, in Skelton’s Wks. (1862), I. p. cxxxiii. O poet rare and recent … Insolent and insensate, Contendyng and condensate.
