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
The juice was squeezed out, strained clear, mixed with perfume of flowers and decocted.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
A Proverb is much matter decocted into few words.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
We'll agree, monsieur; I'll assure you it was both decocted and dried where no sun came, and kept in an onyx ever since it was balled.
From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben
