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Definition of Coctions
1. coction [n] - See also: coction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coctions
Literary usage of Coctions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"motion, which obliges it to several coctions, it turns it presently to a vegetable,
or if it makes two ..."
2. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1825)
"... ointments, waters, lotions, dc. coctions, and poultices, made by the King
himself and his physicians. It begins with “the King's Majesty's own Plastic. ..."
3. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"The indubitable fact remains of stage manipulation can give their con- that Mary
Slade was a bad wife, and coctions illusion. ..."
4. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby (1897)
"... and con- • coctions of messes to make you a new protecting charm. Human eye-balls,
particularly of white men, I have already said are a great charm. ..."
5. A Treatise on Insanity: In which are Contained the Principles of a New and by Philippe Pinel (1806)
"How many thousands of lives have been lost while the- medical attendant has been
indolently waiting upon the coctions and concoctions of the vis medicatrix ..."
6. Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of by John Cameron (1865)
"The shell of the fruit is strongly astringent, and do- coctions of it are used
by the natives in bowel complaints. Two varieties of mango, ..."
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