Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

excoction

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-coc-tion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of excocting or boiling out.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"For in the excoctions and depurations of Metalls it is a familiar error that to advance excoction , they augment the heate of the Fornace , or the Quantity of the Iniection"
"This much is in agreement with what many earlier mechanists had recognized, but Leigniz adds a further principle from the chemical tradition, arguing that it is not just a hydraulico-pneumatical machine, but also a 'pyrotechnical' machine, to the extent that its first motion is generated out of the production of heat in the excoction of chyle from the aliment it takes in."

Etymology

Latin excoctio.

Usage

Inflected Forms

excoctions (plural)

Questions

What does excoction mean?: The act of excocting or boiling out.
Where does excoction come from?: Latin excoctio.

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