† decoctorn.
Obsolete. rare.
One who wastes or squanders; a ruined spendthrift.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal
waster1352
spender1393
fool-large?c1425
neve1440
stroyc1440
strawer1460
scapethrifta1500
prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508
nephew1532
scatterer1535
stroy-good1540
prodigal1547
spend-all1553
dingthrift1566
stroy-all1573
scattergood1577
slip-thrift1579
waste-good1585
slide-thrifta1591
spendthrift1601
unthrifta1602
prodiga1605
spend-good1605
wastethrift1608
prodigal1609
lavisher1611
squanderer1611
decoctor1615
profuser1616
extravagant1745
dissipater1799
wastrel1887
squander-bug1943
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 37 Wee..may worthily be accounted decoctors and prodigals, if we keepe not our Patrimony together.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 224 The Ciuilians..haue attributed vnto this kind of people, the name of Decoctor..otherwise called disturbers or consumers of other mens goods in the course of trafficke.
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