Obs. [ad. L. coagmentātiōn-em, f. coagmentāre: see COAGMENT.]
1. The action of cementing or joining together, or state of being cemented or joined together; junction, concretion. lit. and fig.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 7. The brayne is more safe, by the inseparable coagmentation of the Bones.
1636. B. Jonson, Discov. (1641), 121. The well-joyning, cementing and coagmentation of words.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 319. Nor are we made one Individual with Christ, nor conjoyned by any physical co-agmentation.
1674. Owen, Holy Spirit (1693), 236. Their Coagmentation, joynting or compacting into Order.
2. concr. A mass formed by this action.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 75. All Concretions and Coagmentations of Matter.
1684. trans. Bonets Merc. Compit., III. 56. Gravelly coagmentations and not flinty.