decoctio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dēcoctĭo, ōnis, f. [decoquo] (postclass.), a boiling down.

I Prop.

A Abstr.: lentisci hoc modo, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 13, 165.—

B Concret., a decoction , App. Herb. 77; Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 3, 17.—

II Trop., of an association, a decoction, mixture : unius decoctioni universi respondere cogentur, Cod. Just. 11, 9, 5; cf. Cod. Theod. 4, 9, 3.