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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪˈkɒkʃən/ Forms: decoctions [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒkʃən Etymology: From Old French decoccion, decoction, from Latin decoctiō, from decoquō (“I boil down”), from de- + coquō (“I cook”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pekʷ-}}, {{der|en|fro|decoccion}} Old French decoccion, {{der|en|la|decoctiō}} Latin decoctiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} decoction (countable and uncountable, plural decoctions)
  1. An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (an extraction or essence): ἀπόζεμα (apózema) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), ἀπόζεσμα (apózesma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), отвара (otvara) [feminine] (Bulgarian), aftreksel [neuter] (Dutch), leem (Estonian), keite (Finnish), décoction [feminine] (French), decot [masculine] (Friulian), Abkochung [feminine] (German), Dekokt [neuter] (German), αφέψηση (afépsisi) [feminine] (Greek), जोशाँदा (jośā̃dā) [masculine] (Hindi), जुसाँदा (jusā̃dā) [masculine] (Hindi), क्वाथ (kvāth) [masculine] (Hindi), काढा (kāḍhā) [masculine] (Hindi), काढ़ा (kāṛhā) [masculine] (Hindi), urbhruith [feminine] (Irish), decotto [masculine] (Italian), pūreke (Maori), क्वाथ (kvāth) (Nepali), decoccion [feminine] (Old French), جوشانده (jušânde) (Persian), جوشاندن (jušândan) (Persian), wywar [masculine] (Polish), odwar [masculine] (Polish), decocto [feminine] (Portuguese), отва́р (otvár) [masculine] (Russian), कषाय (kaṣāya) [masculine, neuter] (Sanskrit), क्वाथ (kvātha) [masculine] (Sanskrit), prevretek [masculine] (Slovene), avkok (Swedish), kaṣāy (Tocharian B)
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  2. The process of boiling something down in this way. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-decoction-en-noun-GE0MpvDH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: decoct

Noun [Old French]

Forms: decoction oblique singular or [canonical, feminine], decoctions [oblique, plural], decoction [nominative, singular], decoctions [nominative, plural]
Head templates: {{fro-noun|f}} decoction oblique singular, f (oblique plural decoctions, nominative singular decoction, nominative plural decoctions)
  1. Alternative form of decoccion Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: decoccion
    Sense id: en-decoction-fro-noun-ylVzU8bT Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

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          "ref": "1749, [Thomas Short], “[Of the Symptoms of Fevers, and Their Cure.] 10th, Of Feverish Heat”, in A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. in Sundry Places and Different Times; More Particularly for the Space of 250 Years. Together with Some of Their Most Remarkable Effects on Animal (Especially Human) Bodies, and Vegetables. In Two Volumes, volume II, Printed for T[homas] Longman, in Paternoster-Row, and A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, →OCLC, pages 512–513:",
          "text": "[I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the Armpits, Groins, Hams, &c. or with Barley-water and a little Roſe-vinegar.",
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          "text": "The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.",
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          "ref": "1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:",
          "text": "Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?",
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          "ref": "1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:",
          "text": "Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.",
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          "text": "Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.",
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
      "word": "leem"
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
      "word": "keite"
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        "feminine"
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "code": "fa",
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
      "word": "جوشانده"
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "odwar"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "decocto"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "word": "отва́р"
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "word": "कषाय"
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "code": "sl",
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "word": "prevretek"
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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      "sense": "an extraction or essence",
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}

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      "form": "decoction oblique singular or",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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    }
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          "english": "[take] 9 teaspoonfuls of the aforementioned decoction",
          "ref": "1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):",
          "text": "IX cuillieres de la dicte decoction",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of decoccion"
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}

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