DECOCT

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

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

3.
v.

To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling. [R.] "Decoct their cold blood." Shak.


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