📚 noun • entry_id 32232
decoction
/dɪˈkɒkʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
decocción
An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
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