Definition of Decocted

1. Verb. (past of decoct) ¹

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Definition of Decocted

1. decoct [v] - See also: decoct

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decocted

decluttered
declutterer
declutterers
decluttering
declutters
deco
decoagulant
decocainize
decocainized
decocainizing
decock
decocked
decocking
decocks
decoct
decocted (current term)
decocting
decoction
decoction mashing
decoction process
decoctions
decoctive
decocts
decocture
decodability
decodable
decode
decoded
decoder
decoders

Literary usage of Decocted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry by Pierre Joseph Macquer (1758)
"... greatly in the vegetable decocted ; as we have feen happen to the Fat Oils of certain vegetable matters; but in that cafe ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1910)
"decocted. Cooling and tonic. Given to weakly children who have a tendency to spinal troubles. ... decocted and given in venereal diseases. Not seen (?). ..."

3. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus by Paracelsus (1894)
"Afterwards he casts them into his Athanor, where they are decocted, as seed in the ... They are decocted again in such a way that Sulphur may add its body, ..."

4. An Epitome of the Reports of the Medical Officers to the Chinese Imperial by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1884)
"Maggots from the most filthy sources : dried, powdered, or decocted, ... The excretions, decocted: demulcent; employed in the treatment of asthmatic ..."

5. A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life by British Museum, Cecil Harcourt- Smith, Henry Beauchamp Walters, Edgar John Forsdyke, F. H. Marshall (1908)
"WINE BEING decocted (No. 504). L. 1 ft. 9 in. The must or new wine was partly used for drinking as soon as ready, partly decocted into a sort of jelly ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1877)
"decocted for pulmonary complaints. Powdered and made into pills for cutaneous diseases. From Szechuen prov. Fruit of Forsythia suspensa. ..."

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