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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
decoct /dɪˈkɒkt/

▶verb archaic extract the essence from (something) by heating or boiling it.

– origin ME: from L. decoct-, decoquere ‘boil down’, from de- ‘down’ + coquere ‘cook’.

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