单词 | coction |
释义 | coctionn. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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). < n.1572 |
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