coagulate
UK /kəʊˈæɡ.jʊ.leɪt/ · US /koʊˈæɡ.jə.leɪt/ verb, adjective, noun
Forms coagulates coagulating coagulated
- verb (intransitive) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass. “In cheese making, milk coagulates into curds that become cheese.”
- verb (transitive) To cause to congeal. “Rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.”
- adjective (obsolete) Coagulated.
- noun A mass formed by means of coagulation.
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Etymology
From Middle English coagulaten (“(of blood) to clot or, make blood coagulate; (of tissue) to consolidate”), from coagulat(e) (“coagulated; (blood) clotted; (milk) curdled; (humor) thickened, viscous; (material) solidified, cohesive; (wine) boiled down, reduced”, also used as the past participle of coagulaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin coāgulātus, the perfect passive participle of coāgulō (“to curdle, coagulate”), from coāgulum (“a means of curdling, rennet”), from cōgō (“bring together, gather, collect”) + -ulum (forms instrument nouns), from co- (“together”) + agō (“do, make, drive”). Doublet of quail. Displaced native Middle English irennen, from Old English ġerinnan, but not native curdle.
From Middle English coagulat(e) (“coagulated; (blood) clotted; (milk) curdled; (humor) thickened, viscous; (material) solidified, cohesive; (wine) boiled down, reduced”), also used as the past participle of coagulaten and of coagulate in Early Modern English, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
From New Latin coāgulātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of coāgulātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Coagulated. [Obs.] Shak.
- verb To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
- verb To undergo coagulation. Boyle.
Etymology [L. coagulatus, p. p. of coagulare to coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to drive together, coagulate. See Cogent.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “coagulate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details