单词 | decoction |
释义 | decoctionn. 1. a. The action of decocting; esp. boiling in water or other liquid so as to extract the soluble parts or principles of the substance. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > boiling > boiling down decoctionc1430 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > boiling to extract solubles decoctionc1430 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 82 The coke by mesour sesonyth his potages..By decoccioune to take theyr avauntages. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxijv/2 Moysted wt water of the decokcien of benes. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. vi. 24 The airey..parts..are separated by decoction. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 112 This Plant affords a very soft mucilaginous Substance in Decoction. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 357 Catechu..is a substance obtained by decoction and evaporation from a species of mimosa which abounds in India. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion defyingc1315 digestionc1386 digest1398 seething1398 concoction?1531 concocting1541 decoction1541 digesting1541 digesture1565 enduing1575 fleeting1581 elixation1621 coction1667 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 8 b By insufficient decoction in the second digestion. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. ix. 36 The stomack hath a decoction to digest the meats he feedeth on. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > [noun] > maturing or extracting by heat decoction1430 excoction1640 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > miscellaneous other processes redintegrationa1550 decoction1555 fixion1555 cementation1592 fumigation1617 spiritualization1651 retortion1657 rocking1673 phosphorizationa1687 concentration1689 humectation1706 animalization1733 hyperoxygenation1793 bituminization1804 assimilation1830 metamorphosis1843 transformation1857 retorting1858 tincturation1860 regeneration1869 nitrification1880 diagenesis1886 aluminothermy1900 aluminothermics1902 photoprocess1910 olation1931 mass transfer1937 reconcentration1956 tritiation1961 borohydride reduction1965 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. xxxiii To white he tourneth with his beames shene Both sede and graine by decoction. 1555 R. Eden tr. V. Biringucci Pyrotechnia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 334 By the helpe of fermentacion and decoction of the minerall heate. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. xi. 237/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The substance of sulphur and quicksiluer being mixed in due proportion, after long and temperate decoction in the bowels of the earth..becommeth gold. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 73 According to the variety of the degrees of decoction and alteration, into divers metallick forms. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > boiling down decoction1650 boiling1848 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. viii. 174 The body of his men remaining, was still too big, and must pass another decoction. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 66 Four and twenty prime persons were chosen..which soon after (to make them the more cordiall) passed a decoction, and were reduced to three. 4. A liquor in which a substance, usually animal or vegetable, has been boiled, and in which the principles thus extracted are dissolved; spec. as a medicinal agent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] decoction1398 brewage1542 decocture1727 the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor brotha1000 browisa1300 decoction1398 browet1399 juicea1425 liquorc1430 brooc1440 breea1475 brewis1526 decoct1551 gammon essence1706 stock1730 pot-liquor1742 white stock1806 poêlée1824 blanc1845 fond1928 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] decoction1398 decoct1551 apozem1605 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. ciii. (Tollem. MS.) Þis ston [lapis lazuli] schal not be ȝeue with decoccyon. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 216 Waische þe place wiþ a decoccioun of camomille. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 7v Decoctions..be liquors and other thynges boyled together and then strayned. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 426 A decoction is..the broath of certaine hearbes or simples boiled together in water till the third part be consumed. 1741 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 266 The receipt of a decoction of briar-roots for the bloody flux. 1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling Lines..tinted by a decoction of oak bark. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1398 |
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