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n. [ L. concoctio. ] 1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of perfecting or maturing. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. décoction, L. decoctio. ] 1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. [ 1913 Webster ]

In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. excoctio. ] The act of excocting or boiling out. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]