Dictionary: DE-COCT'ED – DEC'O-RATE

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DE-COCT'ED, pp.

Prepared by boiling.

DE-COCT'I-BLE, a.

That may be boiled or digested.

DE-COC'TION, n. [Fr. decoction; It. decozione. See Decoct.]

  1. The act of boiling a substance in water, for extracting its virtues.
  2. The liquor in which a substance has been boiled; water impregnated with the principles of any animal or vegetable substance boiled in it; as a weak or a strong decoction of Peruvian bark.

DE-COCT'IVE, a.

That may be easily decocted.

DE-COCT'URE, n.

A substance drawn by decoction.

DE'COL-LATE, v.t. [L. decollo.]

To behead. – Burke.

DE'COL-LA-TED, pp.

Beheaded.

DE'COL-LA-TING, ppr.

Beheading.

DE-COL-LA'TION, n. [L. decollatio, from decollo, to behead; de and collum, the neck.]

The act of beheading; the act of cutting off the neck of an animal, and severing the head from the body. It is especially used of St. John the Baptist, and of a painting which represents his beheading.

DE-COL-O-RA'TION, n. [L. decoloratio.]

Absence of color. – Ferrand.

DE-COL'OR-IZE, v.t.

To deprive of color.

DE'COM-PLEX, a. [de and complex.]

Compounded of complex ideas. – Gregory. Locke.

DE-COM-POS'A-BLE, a. [s as z; See Decompose.]

That may be decomposed; capable of being resolved into its constituent elements. – Davy.

DE-COM-POSE', v.t. [s as z; Fr. decomposer; de and composer, to compose, from L. compono, compositus.]

To separate the constituent parts of a body or substance; to disunite elementary particles combined by affinity or chimical attraction; to resolve into original elements.

DE-COM-POS'ED, pp.

Separated or resolved into the constituent parts.

DE-COM-POS'ING, ppr.

Separating into constituent parts.

DE-COM-POS'ITE, a. [decompoz'it; L. de and compositus. See Compose.]

Compounded a second time; compounded with things already composite. – Bacon.

DE-COM-PO-SI'TION, n.

  1. Analysis; the act of separating the constituent parts of a substance, which are chimically combined. Decomposition differs from mechanical division, as the latter effects no change in the properties of the body divided, whereas the parts chimically decomposed have properties very different from those of the substance itself.
  2. A second composition. [In this sense, not now used.] – Boyle.

DE-COM-POUND', a.

  1. Composed of things or words already compounded; compounded a second time. – Boyle.
  2. A decompound leaf, in botany, is when the primary petiole is so divided that each part forms a compound leaf. A decompound flower is formed of compound flowers, or containing, within a common calyx, smaller calyxes, common to several flowers. – Martyn.

DE-COM-POUND', v.t. [de and compound.]

  1. To compound a second time; to compound or mix with that which is already compound; to form by a second composition. – Boyle. Locke. Newton.
  2. To decompose. [Little used, or not at all.]

DE-COM-POUND'A-BLE, a.

That may be decompounded.

DE-COM-POUND'ED, pp.

Compounded a second time; composed of things already compounded.

DE-COM-POUND'ING, ppr.

Compounding a second time.

DEC'O-RA-MENT, n.

Ornament. [Not used.]

DEC'O-RATE, v.t. [L. decoro, from decus, decor, comeliness, grace. See Decency.]

  1. To adorn; to beautify; to embellish; used of external ornaments or apparel; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers.
  2. To adorn with internal grace or beauty; to render lovely; as, to decorate the mind with virtue.
  3. To adorn or beautify with any thing agreeable; to embellish: as, to decorate a hero with honors, or a lady with accomplishments.