decoct

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈkɒkt/    美 /dəˈkɑkt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make an infusion.
  2. To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
    — Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar
  3. To heat as if by boiling. figuratively
    — Can ſodden Water, / A Drench for ſur-reyn’d Iades, their Barly broth, / Decoct their cold blood to ſuch valiant heat?
  4. To reduce or diminish. figuratively
    — […] and that rednesse / may neuere tournë to whiteness / (as clerkës sayn,) but yef so be / it be decoct by charyte, […]
    […] and that redness / may never turn to whiteness / (as clerics say), but if it does, / it will be decocted by Charity, […]
  5. To digest in the stomach.
    — Here ſhe [the body] attracts, and there ſhe doth retain; / There ſhe decocts, and doth the food prepare; / There ſhe diſtributes it to ev’ry vein, / There ſhe expels what ſhe may fitly ſpare.
  6. To devise. transitive

词形变化

decocts present,singular,third-person decocting participle,present decocted participle,past decocted past

词汇关系

衍生词
decoctible decoctive undecocted
相关词
decoction

词源

From Latin dēcoquō (“to boil down”), from dē- + coquō (“to cook”).
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