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excoctions

excoctions is the plural of excoction.

Meaning of excoction

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...

Questions about excoctions

What is excoctions the plural of?
Excoctions is the plural of excoction.

Words near excoctions in the dictionary

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

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