Recoction vs Decoction - What's the difference?
recoction | decoction |
An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford
* 1994 , Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies
As nouns the difference between recoction and decoction
is that recoction is a second coction or preparation; a vamping up while decoction is an extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.decoction
English
(wikipedia decoction)Noun
(en noun)- Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
- 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.