Co`ad*ju"tor*ship, n. The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. Pope.
{ Co`ad*ju"tress (?), Co`ad*ju"trix (?), } n. A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.
Co*ad"ju*van*cy (?), n. Joint help; co÷peration. Sir T. Browne.
Co*ad"ju*vant (?), a. Co÷perating.
Co*ad"ju*vant, n. (Med.) An adjuvant.
Co*ad"u*nate (?; 135), a. [L. coadunatus, p. p. of coadunare to unite. See Adunation.] (Bot.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.
Co*ad`u*na"tion (?), n. [L. coadunatio.] Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor.
The coadunation of all the civilized provinces.
Coleridge.
Co*ad`u*ni"tion (?), n. [Pref. co- + pref. ad- + unition.] Coadunation. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
Co`ad*ven"ture (?; 135), n. An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
Co`ad*ven"ture, v. i. To share in a venture. Howell.
Co`ad*ven"tur*er (?), n. A fellow adventurer.
Co`af*for"est (?), v. t. To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
Coag (?), n. See Coak, a kind of tenon.
Co*a"gen*cy (?), n. Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.
Co*a"gent (?), n. An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.
Co`ag*ment" (?), v. t. [L. coagmentare, fr. coagmentum a joining together, fr. cogere. See Cogent.] To join together. [Obs.] Glanvill.
Co*ag`men*ta"tion (?), n. [L. coagmentatio.] The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Co*ag`u*la*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure.
Co*ag"u*la*ble (?), a. Capable of being coagulated. Boyle.
Co*ag"u*lant (?), n. [L. coagulans, p. pr.] That which produces coagulation.
Co*ag"u*late (?), a. [L. coagulatus, p. p. of coagulare to coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to drive together, coagulate. See Cogent.] Coagulated. [Obs.] Shak.
Co*ag"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coagulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Coagulating (?).] To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
Co*ag"u*late, v. i. To undergo coagulation. Boyle.
Syn. -- To thicken; concrete; curdle; clot; congeal.
Co*ag"u*la`ted (?), a. Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled.
Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.
Co*ag`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. coagulatio.] 1. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.