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

Phillis’s carefully decocted tea must have stimulated them to wakefulness.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

The mandarin is decocted from the crop of oranges grown in my Borneo orchard.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Jókai, Mór