Now rare or Obs. [f. ppl. stem of L. condensāre to CONDENSE.]
1. trans. To make dense (in consistency), thicken, condense.
1555. Eden, Decades, 211. Condensatynge or thyckenynge the sayde moyste nuryshemente.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., I. xv. (1678), 21. Friction … condensates, binds and hardens the flesh.
1689. Packe, trans. Glauber’s Wks., I. 300. Wincs may be condensated to the thickness of Honey.
fig. 1664. Hammond, Serm., Wks. 1684, IV. 611. A little critical learning makes one proud; if there were more it would condensate and compact itself into less room.
b. To make dense (in aggregation), to crowd.
1830. M. T. Sadler, Law of Population. The different degrees in which the population is condensated.
2. intr. To become dense, thicken, condense; to become solid, harden.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 384. Some such like humor may issue out of them [poplars] … and condensate into a stone.
1802. Med. Jrnl., VIII. 536. Nitric acid … extends itself inconsiderably and soon condensates again.
† b. fig. To become intensified. Obs.
1640. Bp. Reynolds, Passions, xxii. 229. It being the propertie of griefe to condensate and as it were on all sides besiege the Minde.
Hence Condensated ppl. a.
1635. N. Carpenter, Geog. Del., I. ii. 21. The thicker and condensated parts.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., IX. 316. Condensated juice of Cichory.
