a. [f. L. coagulat- ppl. stem of coagulāre (see prec.) + -IVE.]

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  1.  Having the property of producing coagulation.

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1605.  Timme, Quersit., III. 152. These doe auaile … to extinguish feauers … by their coagulatiue vertue.

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a. 1691.  Boyle, Wks., I. 423 (R.). A salt … which seemed to have in it a coagulative power, in reference to common water.

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  2.  Having the property of coagulating (intr.); inclined to coagulate or ‘set.’

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1676.  Phil. Trans., XI. 614. The fire … from Cold and Coagulative, changes it into Caustique and Resolutive.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVI. 547. The Glandulous humour … falls into a coagulative disposition with the Serum.

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