Obs. [ad. L. coagmentātiōn-em, f. coagmentāre: see COAGMENT.]

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  1.  The action of cementing or joining together, or state of being cemented or joined together; junction, concretion. lit. and fig.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, I. 7. The brayne is more safe, by the inseparable coagmentation of the Bones.

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1636.  B. Jonson, Discov. (1641), 121. The well-joyning, cementing and coagmentation of words.

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1651.  Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 319. Nor are we made one Individual with Christ, nor conjoyned by any physical co-agmentation.

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1674.  Owen, Holy Spirit (1693), 236. Their Coagmentation, joynting or compacting into Order.

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  2.  concr. A mass formed by this action.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 75. All Concretions and Coagmentations of Matter.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., III. 56. Gravelly coagmentations and not flinty.

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