coagulate

Borrowed from Latin coāgulō, coāgulātus, from coāgulum (“a means of curdling, rennet”), from cōgō (“bring together, gather, collect”), from co- (“together”) + agō (“do, make, drive”). Displaced native Middle English irennen, from Old English ġerinnan

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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

• coagulation
• coagulant

• coagulum

coagulate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Coagulated.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, II. ii. 460:

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

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coagulate (plural coagulates)

1. A mass formed by means of coagulation.

• coagulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• coagulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• coagulate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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coagulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of coagulare
2. second-person plural imperative of coagulare
3. feminine plural of coagulato

coāgulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of coāgulō