crassare

1 crassare [CL] , to fatten. b (fig.) to puff up, swell. 1329 in expensis aucarum de grassando in estate, ij bussellos MinAc 856/20 m. 1d.; si poterit monachus ventrem crassare gulosus Gower VC IV 71 (cf. ib. III 122: ipsa voluptas / carnis ad excessum crassat in ore gulam); to make fatte, ~are, con-, de-, ‥ saginare CathA; 1542 pro bestiis et catallis domini ibidem depasturandis et ~andis Rutland MSS (Ac. Bailiffs Yorks etc.) r. 43.  b s1461 ex ~ata pertinacia obdurarunt ‥ corda sua Reg. Whet. I 419.

2 crassare, ~ari v. grassari