Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of boiling or exposing to the action of a heated liquid.
- n. In medicine, that alteration in morbific matter which fits it for elimination.
- n. Digestion.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete An act of boiling.
- n. medicine, obsolete digestion
- n. obsolete The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Act of boiling.
- n. obsolete, obsolete, obsolete Digestion.
- n. obsolete The change which the humorists{1} believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
Etymologies
- Latin coctio. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He referred to this as "coction," a process in which the fever is burning something out, and the body needed help in this coction process.”
“But pain, heat, and extreme burning prevail until the defluxions are concocted and become thicker, and concretions form about the eyes, and the coction takes place from the fluids being mixed up, diluted, and digested together.”
“But in all those cases in which this decidedly proceeds from cold alone, without the concourse of any other quality, there is a change from cold to hot, and from hot to cold, and these quickly supervene, and require no coction.”
“The coction, change, attenuation, and thickening into the form of humors, take place through many and various forms; therefore the crises and calculations of time are of great importance in such matters; but to all such changes hot and cold are but little exposed, for these are neither liable to putrefaction nor thickening.”
“This fact is borne witness to by Galen, whose words, when writing against Erasistratus in regard to the origin and use of the veins and the coction of the blood, are the following”
“The manner in which digestion is effcted has been so long a question for argument, and persons have sought to ascertain if it were effected by coction, fermentation, solution, chemical, or vital action.”
“Blood is developed out of ichor by coction, and fat in like manner out of blood.”
“Sciences Research Council in coction with the Institute for”
“He writes: "When the sperm hidden in the body of gold is brought out by means of our Art, it appears under the form of Mercury, whence it is exalted into the quintessence which is first white, and then, by means of continuous coction, becomes red.”
“The increasing temperature is a sign of the coction of these fluids into a smaller essence represented by the semen ....”
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Deprefixed words
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essence
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Nearly Nude Roots
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rememberers
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