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Recoction vs Decoction - What's the difference?

recoction | decoction |

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.

recoction

English

Noun

(-)
  • A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.
  • (Webster 1913)

    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.