coction

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒkʃən/    美 /ˈkɑkʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of boiling. obsolete
  2. Digestion. obsolete
  3. The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. archaic,historical
    — But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due coction, and by theſe unſeaſonable attempts vveaken the patient, and increaſe the malady, or perhaps make it ſpeedily mortal.

词形变化

coctions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
recoction

词源

Borrowed from Latin coctiō.
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