Excoction

Quick meaning: Excoction is a noun meaning (obsolete) The act of excocting or boiling out.

Meaning

(obsolete) The act of excocting or boiling out.

Example Sentences

For in the excoctions and depurations of Metalls it is a familiar error that to advance excoction , they augment the heate of the Fornace , or the Quantity of the Iniection

This much is in agreement with what many earlier mechanists had recognized, but Leigniz adds a further principle from the chemical tradition, arguing that it is not just a hydraulico-pneumatical machine, but also a 'pyrotechnical' machine, to the extent that its first motion is generated out of the production of heat in the excoction of chyle from the aliment it takes in.

Word Forms

• excoctions

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coction, decoction, recoction, elixation, extract, concoction.

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