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Decoctive

DECOCT'IVE

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Adj.
That may be easily decocted.
DECOCT'URE, n. A substance drawn by decoction.
DE'COLLATE, v.t. To behead.
DE'COLLATED, pp. Beheaded.
DECOLLA'TION, n. [L. to behead; the neck.] The act of beheading; the act of cutting off the neck of an animal, and severing the head from the body. It is especially used of St. John the Baptist, and of a painting which represents his beheading.
DECOLORA'TION, n. Absence of color.
DE'COMPLEX, a. Compounded of complex ideas.
DECOMPO'SABLE, a. That may be decomposed; capable of being resolved into its constituent elements.
DECOMPO'SE, v.t. To separate the constituent parts of a body or substance; to disunite elementary particles combined by affinity or chimical attraction; to resolve into original elements.
DECOMPO'SED, pp. Separated or resolved into the constituent parts.
DECOMPO'SING, ppr. Separating into constituent parts.
DECOMPOS'ITE, a. Compounded a second time; compounded with things already composite.
DECOMPOSI'TION, n.

Definition 2024

decoctive

decoctive

English

Adjective

decoctive

  1. Serving to decoct.
    • 1801, Newton Horace Winchell, Horace Vaughn Winchell, The Iron Ores of Minnesota, page 26:
      More or less change was effected, however, in nearly all cases, and the augitic and feldspathic and olivinitic minerals were reduced, by the decoctive action of the water, to chloritic and micaceous elements.

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