deconcoct

present singular third person deconcocts · participle present deconcocting · participle past deconcocted · past deconcocted

1. To decompose or break down.

   these Benedictines have had their crudities deconcocted, and have been drawn out into more slender threads of sub - divisions

   1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

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   Deconcocted and mixed with certain other barks, sass was used in ritual ordeals to test, punish, or absolve those accused of witchcraft.

   2006, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society