coagulate

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈæɡ.jʊ.leɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊˈæɡ.jə.leɪt/

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coagulate (third-person singular simple present coagulates, present participle coagulating, simple past and past participle coagulated)

1. (intransitive) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.

   In cheese making, milk coagulates into curds that become cheese.

2. (transitive) To cause to congeal.

   Rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.

• dissolve, melt

• coagulum
• cache
• cogent
• squat

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.

coagulate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Coagulated.
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     c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 460:

     roasted in wrath and fire, / And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,

From New Latin coāgulātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of coāgulātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈæɡ.jʊ.lət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊˈæɡ.jə.lət/

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coagulate (plural coagulates)

1. A mass formed by means of coagulation.

• “coagulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “coagulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “coagulate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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coagulate

1. inflection of coagulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

coagulate f pl

1. feminine plural of coagulato

coāgulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of coāgulō

coagulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of coagular combined with te