coction

Noun

coction (plural coctions)

1. (obsolete) An act of boiling.
2. (obsolete) Digestion.
3. (archaic, historical) The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
   • But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due...1686 (indicated as 1685–1686), Robert Boyle, “A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature: […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew]...
   • A yellow Urine is caused by a due Concoction of the Chyle with the Blood. A red Urine is made by the Mixture of Blood with it, or by a greater Coction.1697, John Pechey, A Plain Introduction to the Art of Physick, ... to which is added the Materia Medica contracted, and alphabetical tables of the vertues of roots, etc, page 111