ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Made dense or more dense; compressed, highly concentrated. Condensed milk: milk reduced to a thick viscid consistence by evaporation.
1606. B. Jonson, Hymenæi, Wks. (Rtldg.), 559. Dark and condensed clouds.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., 117. A Schoolman is the Ghost of the Stagirite, in a body of condensed air.
1836. Examiner, 17 April, 255 (Advt.). Condensed Preparation of Sarsaparilla.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 17. Ozone is oxygen in a condensed state.
1871. Food Jrnl., 655. Plain condensed milk, without the addition of the sugar.
1871. Evening Stand., 25 Nov., 1/3. [A history of Condensed Milk].
b. Printing. Condensed type: a form of type, narrow in proportion to its height.
Mod. Type List. Eight line Grotesque Condensed Old Style. Long Primer Latin condensed.
2. spec. Reduced from the gaseous or vaporous to the liquid or solid state, or from the state of invisible gas to that of visible vapor.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Manch. Strike, vi. 66. The windows, thickened with the condensed breath of the workpeople.
1853. Herschel, Pop. Lect. Sc., i. (1873), 13. Steam and condensed gases.
1879. Cassell’s Tech. Educ., II. 82.
3. fig. Put into small compass, highly compressed, compact; esp. of literary work or style.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., p. vi. Results presented in a condensed and lucid form.
1830. Jeffrey, in Trevelyan, Macaulay, (1876), I. iv. 193. Macaulay made the best speech, the most condensed.
1886. Morley, Ht. Martineau, Crit. Misc. III. 208. A pithy brevity, a condensed argumentativeness.
b. Music. Condensed score = compressed score.
Hence Condensedness, condensed quality.
