| Decoction 1. (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. 2. (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. Thesaurus Entries boil, boiling, brew, chemical solution, coction, combination, composition, concentrate, concentration, concoction, confection, decoctum, distillate, distillation, ebullience, ebulliency, ebulliometer, ebullition, elixir, essence, expression, extract, extraction, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, leach, leachate, lixivium, marination, mixture, penetration, permeation, pervasion, pressing, purification, quintessence, refinement, rendering, rendition, saturation, seething, simmer, simmering, soaking, solution, spirit, squeezing, steeping, stewing, suffusion |