excoction
English
Etymology
Latin excoctio.
Noun
excoction (usually uncountable, plural excoctions)
- (obsolete) The act of excocting or boiling out.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- 2011, Brandon Look, The Continuum Companion to Leibniz:
- 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 production of heat in the excoction of chyle from the aliment it takes in.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for excoction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)