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单词 coction
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coctionn.

/ˈkɒkʃən/
Etymology: < Latin coctiōnem cooking, noun of action, < coquĕre to cook v.1: so French coction (16th cent. in Littré).
Now rare.
1. Boiling; cooking in general.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun]
pot?c1225
cooking1596
coction1605
cocture1662
concoction1680
kitchening1842
slow cooking1851
pancake-making1904
cook-up1911
pot wrestling1914
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. vi. 130 The true correctors of all remedies are purifying and coctions only.
1682 N. Grew Disc. Colours of Plants v. ii. §2 in Anat. Plants 273 Either by Coction or long Infusion.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 131 The venom lies chiefly in volatile parts going away by coction.
1821 Turner's Easy Introd. Arts & Sci. (ed. 18) 218 In the sixth boiler the syrup receives its full coction.
2. The action of heat in preparing any substance; e.g. the baking of earthenware, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > types of heating process
burning1559
firework1560
roast1582
coction1684
kelp-burning1845
hot drawing1897
process heating1926
1684 R. Boyle Exper. Porosity of Bodies iv. 91 Those earthern Bottles..by reason of the solidity they acquire by the vehement coction of the Fire.
1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. x. 339 Procure to the imperfect metals the much desired coction.
3. Ripening. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > state of being or becoming ripe or mature
ripingeOE
ripenessOE
ripeOE
maturity?1440
ripening1561
maturation1621
superbience1672
coction1693
overripeness1806
blood-ripeness1826
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. ii. 90 The Pear..may receive thereby an extraordinary Coction.
4. Old Med. The ‘ripening’ of morbific matter, which fits it for elimination from the living body.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > maturation
coction1572
concoction1676
maturation1818–20
1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 18v Coction must be loked first; especially in grosse, tough, and slimy humours.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 229 When they say that a Portion of Peccant Matter is brought to Coction, they mean, that it has acquir'd such a Disposition, as makes it more fit, than before, to be separated.
1738 Med. Ess. IV. 364.
1832 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. July 469 Under the terms crudity, coction and evacuation, were designated the three principal periods of diseases, as dependent on an alteration of the morbific matter.
5. Physiology. Digestion of food. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion
defyingc1315
digestionc1386
digest1398
seething1398
concoction?1531
concocting1541
decoction1541
digesting1541
digesture1565
enduing1575
fleeting1581
elixation1621
coction1667
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 514 The conveighing of the Yolk into the Guts, for a second coction.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. ix. 22 The Action of the stomach is Coction which is termed Chylification.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Indigestion
1881 D. F. Lincoln tr. A. Trousseau & H. Pidoux Treat. Therapeutics The system is powerless to perform any coction.
6. Preparation by a natural process which gradually brings to perfection. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being in preparation > making or becoming mature
ripingeOE
concoction1555
hatching1555
ripening1561
maturation1605
incubation1614
gestation1615
coction1683
development1724
developing1744
ageing1853
maturing1897
1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 332 The first Celestial dew..by a perpetual ‘Coction’.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Milk The Milk which is too young, should be rejected, because it has not acquir'd all the Degrees of Coction it should have.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery ii. 85 The Fossil is more gross than the Sea Salt, as well on account of its Coction or Preparation, as of its Substance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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