coct-, cocto- +

(Latin: to cook, to boil; to prepare; to digest)


coction
1. The act of cooking, boiling, or altering a substance by applying heat.
2. An old term for "digestion".
coctoantigen
An antigen (substance that is capable of causing the production of an antibody) that has been heated.
coctoimmunogen
A heated immunogen (a substance that can prompt a response from the immune system).
concoct, concocts
1. To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking; to make a concoction (of) by mixing.
2. To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: "He tried to concoct a mystery story."
3. To think up a story or plan; especially, something ingenious or imaginative.
4. To make up or to prepare (artificially) by mixing a variety of ingredients; now especially, of a soup, a drink, or the like.
5. To make up, to devise, or to plan by concert, or by artificial combination; to put together, to make up, or to fabricate (a story, project, fraud, etc.).
concocted
1. Having made something, usually food, by adding several different parts together, often in a way that is original or not planned.
2. Prepared or brought to perfection by heat; digested; ripened, matured; planned, contrived; fabricated.
concocter, concoctor
1. Someone who makes something; especially, ingeniously from a variety of ingredients.
Thesaurus: contrive, invent, devise, formulate, fabricate, plan, develop. 2. An inventor of (a story, excuse, etc).
concoctible
1. Capable of being concocted.
2. Digestible.
concoction
1. Something made ingeniously from a variety of ingredients.
2. Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; a mixture.
3. An occurrence of an unusual mixture.
4. The invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose: "His testimony was a concoction of lies and half truths."
5. The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup, etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components.
6. A medicinal formulatin of several ingredients, the combination of which is used to achieve some therapeutic objective.
7. The process of digestion.
concoctive
Pertaining to or referring to the concoction of a mixture, a story, etc.
decoct
1. To extract the flavor of by boiling.
2. To make concentrated; to boil down.
3. To extract the essence or active ingredient from a substance by boiling it.
4. Etymology: from Middle English decocten, "to boil", from Latin decoquere, decoct-, "to boil down" or "to boil away"; from de-, "down, away" + coquere, "to boil, to cook".
decoctible
Capable of being boiled or digested.
decoction, decocture
1. The extraction of an essence or active ingredient from a substance by boiling.
2. A concentrated substance that results from decoction, or boiling.
3. Water in which a crude vegetable drug has been boiled and which therefore contains the constituents or principles of the substance soluble in boiling water.
4. The act or process of boiling resulting in a medicine or other substance prepared by boiling.
decoctum
A liquid preparation made by boiling a medicinal plant with water usually in the proportion of five parts of the drug to 100 parts of water.
deconcoct
1. To decompose.
2. According to earlier physiological notions: To reduce (imperfectly concocted humurs or ill digested food) by further digestion.
excoct
1. To boil out.
2. To produce by boiling.

Closely related to the coqu-, cocu- family of "to cook, to ripen" words.


If there are any numbers below, use them to see other pages in this unit.

1 2 Next

Showing page 1 out of 2 pages of 25 words or word groups.

Back to Index | Search Box | Main Index

The Main-Word Info page

The + sign at the end of a unit title means all of the words in that unit have definitions.

Directory of special content and topics

Do you want to help to make this dictionary bigger and better?

Subscribe to this FREE Focusing on Words Newsletter

E-mail Contact words@wordinfo.info




Google
 
Web Search Word Info Search