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
At first it seemed like that of an old-fashioned pot-pourri of lavender, verbena and basalt, such as our grandmothers decocted in their punch-bowls from dried rose-leaves to give their rooms a sweet odour.
From The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux
For that I decocted Lethe in his cup.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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 James Joyce
