excoctionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

excoction (usually uncountable, 複数形 excoctions)

1. (obsolete) The act of excocting or boiling out.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 または 2)”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554:

     For in the excoctions and depurations of Metalls it is a familiar error that to advance excoction , they augment the heate of the Fornace , or the Quantity of the Iniection

   • 2011, Brandon Look, The Continuum Companion to Leibniz:

     This much is in agreement with what many earlier mechanists had recognized, but Leigniz adds a further principle from the chemical tradition, arguing that it is not just a hydraulico-pneumatical machine, but also a 'pyrotechnical' machine, to the extent that its first motion is generated out of the production of heat in the excoction of chyle from the aliment it takes in.