decoctive
adjEtymology From decoct + -ive.
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Serving to decoct.
- More or less change was effected, however, in nearly all cases, and the augitic and feldspathic and olivinitic minerals were reduced, by the decoctive action of the water, to chloritic and micaceous elements.1801, Newton Horace Winchell, Horace Vaughn Winchell, The Iron Ores of Minnesota, page 26: