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excoction

excoction noun: the act of excocting or boiling out.

Noun

excoction (usually uncountable, plural excoctions)

  1. (obsolete, usually) The act of excocting or boiling out.
    • For in the excoctions and depurations of Metalls it is a familiar error that to advance excoction , they augment the heate of the Fornace , or the Quantity of the Iniection1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas...
    • This much is in agreement with what many earlier mechanists had recognized, but Leigniz adds a further principle from the chemical tradition, arguing that it is not just a hydraulico-pneumatical machine, but also a 'pyrotechnical' machine, to the extent that its first motion is generated out of the...2011, Brandon Look, The Continuum Companion to Leibniz

Forms of excoction

pluralexcoctions

Origin of excoction

Latin excoctio.

Questions about excoction

What does excoction mean?
Excoction means the act of excocting or boiling out.
What part of speech is excoction?
Excoction is a noun.
What is the plural of excoction?
The plural of excoction is excoctions.

Words near excoction in the dictionary

  1. exclusory
  2. exco
  3. excoct
  4. excocted
  5. excocting
  6. excoction
  7. excoctions
  8. excocts
  9. excoecarianin
  10. excogitable
  11. excogitate

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