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Coction
UK
/ˈkɒkʃən/
US
/ˈkɑkʃən/
Translation of "coction" into Russian
coction
Noun
UK
/ˈkɒkʃən/
US
/ˈkɑkʃən/
coction
coctions pl
The coction of the soup took several hours.
Варка супа заняла несколько часов.
The herbal coction was used as a remedy.
Травяной отвар использовался как лекарство.
Definitions
coction
Noun
UK
/ˈkɒkʃən/
US
/ˈkɑkʃən/
The process of boiling or cooking something, especially in the context of preparing a medicinal or herbal concoction.
The herbalist explained that the coction of the roots would take several hours to achieve the desired potency.
The process of digestion within the body, viewed in humoral medicine as a maturation or "cooking" of food into bodily humours (obsolete).
In Galenic theory, disease was thought to arise when the natural coction of food in the stomach was impaired.