a. [f. L. coagulat- ppl. stem of coagulāre (see prec.) + -IVE.]
1. Having the property of producing coagulation.
1605. Timme, Quersit., III. 152. These doe auaile to extinguish feauers by their coagulatiue vertue.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks., I. 423 (R.). A salt which seemed to have in it a coagulative power, in reference to common water.
2. Having the property of coagulating (intr.); inclined to coagulate or set.
1676. Phil. Trans., XI. 614. The fire from Cold and Coagulative, changes it into Caustique and Resolutive.
1684. trans. Bonets Merc. Compit., XVI. 547. The Glandulous humour falls into a coagulative disposition with the Serum.