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Webster 1913 Edition
Decoction
De-coc′tion
,Noun.
[F.
décoction
, L. decoctio
.] 1.
The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
In
decoction
. . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.
2.
An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the
decoction
of the plant. Arbuthnot.
In pharmacy
decoction
is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. Latham.