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Webster 1913 Edition

Coction

Coc′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
coctio
.]
1.
Act of boiling.
2.
(Med.)
(a)
Digestion.
[Obs.]
(b)
The change which the humorists{1} believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
[Obs.]
Dunglison.

Webster 1828 Edition

Coction

COCTION

,
Noun.
The act of boiling or exposing to heat in liquor. In medicine, that alteration in the crude matter of a disease, which fits it for a discharge; digestion.

Definition 2024

coction

coction

English

Noun

coction ‎(plural coctions)

  1. (obsolete) An act of boiling.
  2. (medicine, obsolete) digestion
  3. (obsolete) The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

Etymology

Latin coctio.

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