Associations to the word «Coction»

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Wiktionary

COCTION, noun. (obsolete) An act of boiling.
COCTION, noun. (medicine) (obsolete) digestion
COCTION, noun. (obsolete) The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope