different between decoct vs recoct

English

Etymology

From Latin decoqu? (“I boil down”), from de- + coqu? (“I cook”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??k?kt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??k?kt/

Verb

decoct (third-person singular simple present decocts, present participle decocting, simple past and past participle decocted)

1. (cooking) To make an infusion.
2. (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, Volume 2, page 54

     Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar

3. (figuratively) To heat as if by boiling.
4. (figuratively) To reduce or diminish.
5. To digest in the stomach.
6. (transitive) To devise.

Related terms

• decoction

English

Etymology

From Latin recoctus, past participle of recoquere (“to cook or boil over again”). See re- and cook.

Verb

recoct (third-person singular simple present recocts, present participle recocting, simple past and past participle recocted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To boil or cook again.
2. (obsolete, transitive, by extension) To make over; to revamp or reconstruct.

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Anagrams

• toccer