Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of boiling or exposing to the action of a heated liquid.
  • noun In medicine, that alteration in morbific matter which fits it for elimination.
  • noun Digestion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Act of boiling.
  • noun obsolete, obsolete, obsolete Digestion.
  • noun obsolete The change which the humorists{1} believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete An act of boiling.
  • noun medicine, obsolete digestion
  • noun obsolete The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

Etymologies

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Latin coctio.

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