Decoct

Quick meaning: Decoct is a verb meaning (cooking) To make an infusion.

Meaning

(cooking) To make an infusion.

More Meanings

1. (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
2. (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
3. (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
4. To digest in the stomach.
5. (transitive) To devise.

Example Sentences

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.

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

Word Forms

• decocts
• decocting
• decocted

Synonyms for decoct

Depending on context, synonyms include reduce, concentrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reduce, concentrate, concoct, confect, co-infuse, decoupage.

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