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

For that I decocted Lethe in his cup.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

We'll agree, monsieur; I'll assure you it was both decocted and dried where no sun came, and kept in an onyx ever since it was balled.

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

Young red oaken leaves decocted in wine, make an excellent gargle for a sore mouth; and almost every part of this tree is soveraign against fluxes in general, and where astringents are proper.

From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by Nisbet, John