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

I've also got now some one ill in my place," Pao-yü retorted with a smile, "and medicines are being decocted.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

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 Le Queux, William

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)