Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of boiling in water, in order to extract the peculiar properties or virtues.
- noun The liquor in which an animal or a vegetable substance has been boiled; water impregnated by boiling with the properties of such a substance: as, a decoction of Peruvian bark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
- noun An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
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- noun an
extraction oressence of something, obtained byboiling it down
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- noun (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling
Etymologies
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Examples
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The explanation rests in the form in which they consume their coffee, namely the decoction, which is free from the sedative principle of the seed, that undoubtedly resides in the aromatic ingredient "cafeol."
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Bullokar was also the first compiler to identify the domain of a particular term: the word decoction he described as "a boyling or seething; in Phisicke it signifieth commonly any liquor in which medicinable roots, herbas, seedes, flowers or any other thyng hath beene boyled."
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Let it dry, crush about this much in the palm of your hand, boil it in enough water to fill the bone cup until the decoction is the color of ripe hay.
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980
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Turkish physicians in the form of a decoction, which is regarded by them as of peculiar efficacy in diseases of the respiratory organs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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A decoction is a liquid produced by boiling a substance until its soluble properties are extracted.
All About Coffee 1909
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The decoction is the form prescribed in pneumonia.
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The decoction is the most useful form; one ounce of the bruised root is boiled in a pint of water, of which a half pint to one pint may be taken during the day.
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It has a sweetish taste, but a disagreeable smell, and is generally given in the form of a decoction, which is made by boiling an ounce of the dried bark in a quart of water until it assumes the color of Madeira wine.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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The decoction is a good wash for indolent ulcers, and the dried powdered root sprinkled on ill conditioned sores, seldom fails to produce a healthy discharge, and a disposition to heal.
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The decoction is a good astringent wash in all cases where astringents are required, used as a wash or bath to the fundament it is an excellent remedy in case of piles; it may be applied by wetting lint in the decoction and applying it to the fundament.
ruzuzu commented on the word decoction
"The liquor in which an animal or a vegetable substance has been boiled; water impregnated by boiling with the properties of such a substance: as, a decoction of Peruvian bark."
--CD&C
January 31, 2013
bilby commented on the word decoction
At last, something useful to do with dogs.
January 31, 2013