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.
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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