Lexicographical Neighbors of Decoctive
Literary usage of Decoctive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... hourly and annual variations in declination, and also the variations due to
magnetic storms. decoctive (de-kok'tiv), a. Having power to decoct. [liare. ..."
2. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1895)
"... as a result of decoctive liquefaction of the albumen (Ex. XVI). And, at the
other extreme, see Bonnet and Haller denying generation altogether, ..."
3. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... and accumulative industry in observation and nomenclature, so far are our
scientific men from arriving, by any decoctive process of their own knowledge, ..."
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