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coctions

coctions is the plural of coction.

Meaning of 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]...

Questions about coctions

What is coctions the plural of?
Coctions is the plural of coction.

Words near coctions in the dictionary

  1. Cocteau
  2. Cocteauan
  3. Cocteauesque
  4. coctile
  5. coction
  6. coctions
  7. Cocto
  8. coctoprecipitin
  9. coctoprecipitins
  10. Cocu
  11. cocultivate

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