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Definitions
steep in hot water
Word origin
From Latin dēcoquō (“to boil down”), from dē- + coquō (“to cook”).
Used in a sentence
“Can ſodden Water, / A Drench for ſur-reyn’d Iades, their Barly broth, / Decoct their cold blood to ſuch valiant heat?”
“[…] and that rednesse / may neuere tournë to whiteness / (as clerkës sayn,) but yef so be / it be decoct by charyte, […]”
[…] and that redness / may never turn to whiteness / (as clerics say), but if it does, / it will be decocted by Charity, […]“Here ſhe [the body] attracts, and there ſhe doth retain; / There ſhe decocts, and doth the food prepare; / There ſhe diſtributes it to ev’ry vein, / There ſhe expels what ſhe may fitly ſpare.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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