coagulate
verbEtymology
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.
- derived from coāgulātus
- inherited from coagulaten — “(of blood) to clot or, make blood coagulate; (of tissue) to consolidate”
Definitions
To become congealed
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.
Coagulated.
- roasted in wrath and fire, / And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,
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A mass formed by means of coagulation.
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A definitional loop anchored at coagulate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at coagulate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at coagulate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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