Coction

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coction \Coc"tion\, n. [L. coctio.]
     1. Act of boiling.
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     2. (Med.)
        (a) Digestion. [Obs.]


        (b) The change which the humorists[1] believed morbific
            matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.]
            --Dunglison.
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