decoct
English
Etymology
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From Latin decoquō (“I boil down”), from de- + coquō (“I cook”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
decoct (third-person singular simple present decocts, present participle decocting, simple past and past participle decocted)
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 80, column 1:
- Can ſodden Water, / A Drench for ſur-reyn’d Iades, their Barly broth, / Decoct their cold blood to ſuch valiant heat?
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
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- To digest in the stomach.
- a. 1626, Sir John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul, R. & A. Foulis, published 1759, page 46:
- 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.
- (transitive) To devise.