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Webster 1913 Edition


Decocture

De-coc′ture

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Noun.
A decoction.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Decocture

DECOCT'URE

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Noun.
A substance drawn by decoction.
DE'COLLATE, v.t. To behead.
DE'COLLATED, pp. Beheaded.
DECOLLA'TION, n. [L. to behead; the neck.] The act of beheading; the act of cutting off the neck of an animal, and severing the head from the body. It is especially used of St. John the Baptist, and of a painting which represents his beheading.
DECOLORA'TION, n. Absence of color.
DE'COMPLEX, a. Compounded of complex ideas.
DECOMPO'SABLE, a. That may be decomposed; capable of being resolved into its constituent elements.
DECOMPO'SE, v.t. To separate the constituent parts of a body or substance; to disunite elementary particles combined by affinity or chimical attraction; to resolve into original elements.
DECOMPO'SED, pp. Separated or resolved into the constituent parts.
DECOMPO'SING, ppr. Separating into constituent parts.
DECOMPOS'ITE, a. Compounded a second time; compounded with things already composite.
DECOMPOSI'TION, n.

Definition 2024


decocture

decocture

English

Noun

decocture (plural decoctures)

  1. (archaic) A decoction.


Latin

Participle

dēcoctūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of dēcoctūrus