单词 | recoction |
释义 | recoctionn. Now rare. The action or result of recoct v.; an instance of this. In later use esp.: a revamp, a revision; (frequently depreciative) a rehash. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > an act of > second recoction1562 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Compoundes sig. Iiiiiv, in Bulwarke of Defence Your Clisters must be first of decoction with your rootes, then sedes..then strained, and so your oiles, and Hiera picra. &c. with a little recoction. 1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. 1039 The recoction of yellow Choler should not only be for an impediment, but moreover, for a contagion to the fresh Chyle tending unto the shop of Sanguification. 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 185 Its Recoction or Annealing deprives it of this Brittleness. 1832 Biblical Repertory Apr. 571 A skilful recoction of the same ingredients, with such changes as..the results of Storr's analysis suggest, was the thing required. 1863 E. Higginson Spirit of Bible (ed. 2) 8 The first book of Esdras is really a recoction of certain parts of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. a1933 G. Saintsbury in Saintsbury Misc. (1947) 215 It is of course possible that the author..never intended to publish them in their actual form at all: that they were merely half-done work meant for ‘recoction’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562 |
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