coagment

English

Etymology

From Latin coagmentare, from coagmentum (“a joining together”), from cogere. See cogent.

Verb

coagment (third-person singular simple present coagments, present participle coagmenting, simple past and past participle coagmented)

(obsolete) To join together.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
  Had the world been coagmented from that supposed fortuitous jumble, this hypothesis had been tolerable.

Related terms

coagmentation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coagment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)