caseate

caseate noun: synonym of caseinate.

Noun

caseate (plural caseates)

Synonym of caseinate.

Synonyms:

caseinate
(obsolete) A salt or ester of caseic acid.
- Two peculiar principles have been discovered by Proust, in the caseous matter of milk, which he has named Caseic acid, and Caseous oxide. The former is obtained by keeping the curd of milk for several days in water, when acetic, phosphoric and caseic acids are produced, all saturated with ammonia...1828, John Murray, Elements of Chemistry, 6th edition, volume Second, Edinburgh & London: Adam Black & Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, page 602

caseate (third-person singular simple present caseates, present participle caseating, simple past and past participle caseated)

(intransitive) To undergo caseation, a necrotic degeneration into a cheese-like state.
- But very commonly the cell-growth degenerates, breaks down into pus, or caseates and perhaps subsequently softens.1887, Robert Druitt, Druitt's Surgeon's Vade Mecum: A Manual of Modern Surgery
- Extensive lumpy infiltrates with a tendency to caseate and to form fistulas with purulent secretions appear, mainly in the anogenital region.2013, Otto Braun-Falco, Dermatology, page 141

caseate (not comparable)

Of a cheese-like texture.
- But pearls and Corrall, and whatsoever else hath a saxatile hardnesse of shell-fish, must give place truly to gemmes for hardnesse; and yet they are not therefore digested in the Athanor of our Oeconomy, so well as in the stomack of some birds. But the stones of Bezoar and of Crabs &c. not so hard...1651, Noah Biggs, Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeōs, The vanity of the craft of physick, or, A new dispensatory wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools in...

Noun
plural	caseates
Verb
third-person singular present	caseates
present participle	caseating
past participle	caseated
past	caseated

From caseic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Back-formation from caseation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).

From Latin cāseus (“cheese”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

What does caseate mean?: Caseate means synonym of caseinate.
What is caseate in Arabic?: Caseate in Arabic is تَجَبَّنَ (tajabbana). See Caseate meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is caseate?: Caseate can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
What is the plural of caseate?: The plural of caseate is caseates.

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