Meaning of decoct | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make an infusion.
2. To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
3. To heat as if by boiling.
   figuratively
4. To reduce or diminish.
   figuratively
5. To digest in the stomach.
6. To devise.
   transitive

Examples

“Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar”

“Can ſodden Water, / A Drench for ſur-reyn’d Iades, their Barly broth, / Decoct their cold blood to ſuch valiant heat?”

“[…] and that rednesse / may neuere tournë to whiteness / (as clerkës sayn,) but yef so be / it be decoct by charyte, […]”

[…] and that redness / may never turn to whiteness / (as clerics say), but if it does, / it will be decocted by Charity, […]

“Here ſhe [the body] attracts, and there ſhe doth retain; / There ſhe decocts, and doth the food prepare; / There ſhe diſtributes it to ev’ry vein, / There ſhe expels what ſhe may fitly ſpare.”

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