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Concoction vs Decoction - What's the difference?

concoction | decoction |

As nouns the difference between concoction and decoction

is that concoction is digestion (of food etc.) while decoction is an extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.

concoction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.260:
    • [Sorrow] hinders concoction , refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […].
  • The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
  • A mixture prepared in such a way.
  • Something made-up, an invention.
  • (obsolete, figurative) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
    • (John Donne)
  • (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
  • (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    decoction

    English

    (wikipedia decoction)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
  • * 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford
    • Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
  • * 1994 , Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies
    • Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.

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