decocted
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These stiff hieratic forms are carved from cottonwood and then painted with pigments decocted from soot, blood, flowers and ocherous clays he gathers himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
David Stuart, a Mayanist at Harvard, decocted the encounter between Chak Tok Ich’aak and the Teotihua- can expedition in 2000.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
For that I decocted Lethe in his cup.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
The mandarin is decocted from the crop of oranges grown in my Borneo orchard.
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
After he had written the prescription and taken his departure, some one was despatched to fetch the medicines, which when brought were properly decocted.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
