"Decoction" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
The act of boiling a sub-stance in water, for extracting its virtues. Also the liquor in which a substance has been boiled; water impregnated with the prlnci-ples of any animal or vegetable substance boiled in it webster; Sykes v. Magone (C. O.) 38 Fed. 497
An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid
to extract its virtues.
He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others.
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