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Decoct [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

2. To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.

3. To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.

Decocted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Decoctible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be boiled or digested.

Decoctible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being boiled or digested.

Decocting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Decoction [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of boiling a substance in water, for extracting its virtues.

2. The liquor in which a substance has been boiled; water impregnated with the principles of any animal or vegetable substance boiled in it; as a weak or a strong decoction of Peruvian bark.

Decoction [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.

2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.

Decoctive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be easily decocted.

Decocture [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A substance drawn by decoction.

Decocture [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A decoction.