Coction

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of boiling or exposing to the action of a heated liquid.
  • noun. In medicine, that alteration in morbific matter which fits it for elimination.
  • noun. Digestion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act of boiling.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Digestion.
  • noun. The change which the humorists{1} believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of boiling.
  • noun. digestion
  • noun. The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
  • Word Usage
    "He referred to this as "coction," a process in which the fever is burning something out, and the body needed help in this coction process."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    digestion