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decoction

noun
/dɪˈkɒkʃən/

Etymology

From Old French decoccion, decoction, from Latin decoctiō, from decoquō (“to boil down”), from de- + coquō (“to cook”).

  1. derived from decoctiō
  2. derived from decoccion

Definitions

  1. An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.

    • The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
    • Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?

  2. The process of boiling something down in this way.

    • Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for decoction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA