coagulate
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coagulate¹
- /kəʊˈæɡ.jʊ.leɪt/ UK
- /koʊˈæɡ.jə.leɪt/ US
Where it comes from
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.
verb coagulates · coagulating · coagulated
- To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass. In cheese making, milk coagulates into curds that become cheese.
- To cause to congeal. Rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
coagulate²
Where it comes from
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.
adjective
- Coagulated. roasted in wrath and fire, / And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,
coagulate³
- /kəʊˈæɡ.jʊ.lət/ UK
- /koʊˈæɡ.jə.lət/ US
Where it comes from
From New Latin coāgulātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of coāgulātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
noun coagulates
- A mass formed by means of coagulation.
