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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Decocted

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Decocting

[L.

decoctus

, p. p. of

decoquere

to boil down;

de-

coquere

to cook, boil. See

to decoct.]

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.

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

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

[R.]

“Decoct their cold blood.”

Shak.