Associations to the word «Decoction»

Wiktionary

DECOCTION, noun. An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.

Dictionary definition

DECOCTION, noun. (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca