caseate

noun

1. Synonym of caseinate.
2. (obsolete)A salt or ester of caseic acid.

verb

1. (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.”

   “Extensive lumpy infiltrates with a tendency to caseate and to form fistulas with purulent secretions appear, mainly in the anogenital region.”

adj

1. (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 as pearls, are not of a saxatile nature: but are rather made of a lacteous semi-caseate & semi-petrified juice, and have a neutrall nature of a tophe, between a Cartilage and a stone.”