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decoct

decoct is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.
  2. 2.To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling. [R.] "Decoct their cold blood." Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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