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

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

Fuller defines a proverb as "much matter decocted into a few words," and a very good definition it is.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)

Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them talk, being secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having been consumed.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James