recoct

English

Etymology

From Latin recoctus, past participle of recoquere (“to cook or boil over again”). See re- and cook.

Verb

recoct (third-person singular simple present recocts, present participle recocting, simple past and past participle recocted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To boil or cook again.
2. (obsolete, transitive, by extension) To make over; to revamp or reconstruct.
   • 1605, L. Hutton, Aunswer […] :

     Your olde Crambe of Religionis ergo, so often recocted.

Derived terms

• recoction

 

References

• “recoct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• toccer