deconcoct

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Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /diːkənˈkɒkt/

Verb edit

deconcoct (third-person singular simple present deconcocts, present participle deconcocting, simple past and past participle deconcocted)

To decompose.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
  these Benedictines have had their crudities deconcocted, and have been drawn out into more slender threads of sub - divisions
- 2006, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society:
  Deconcocted and mixed with certain other barks, sass was used in ritual ordeals to test, punish, or absolve those accused of witchcraft.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deconcoct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

concocted