Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-COCT', v.t. [L. decoquo, decoctum; de and coquo, to cook, to boil.]

1. To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water. – Bacon.
2. To digest by the heat of the stomach; to prepare as food for nourishing the body. – Davies.
3. To boil in water, for extracting the principles or virtues of a substance. – Bacon.
4. To boil up to a consistence; to invigorate. – Shak. [This verb is little used, and in its last sense, is hardly proper.]