What does decoct mean?
Decoct means (cooking) To make an infusion..
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/dɪˈkɒkt/ · verb
(cooking) To make an infusion..
Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar
Can ſodden Water, / A Drench for ſur-reyn’d Iades, their Barly broth, / Decoct their cold blood to ſuch valiant heat?
[…] and that rednesse / may neuere tournë to whiteness / (as clerkës sayn,) but yef so be / it be decoct by charyte, […]
Here ſhe [the body] attracts, and there ſhe doth retain; / There ſhe decocts, and doth the food prepare; / There ſhe diſtributes it to ev’ry vein, / There ſhe expels what ſhe may fitly ſpare.
Use decoct when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Decoct means (cooking) To make an infusion..
Common synonyms include reduce, concentrate, boil down.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar
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