Moby-Dick: Decoction
Decoction
- boiling something to extract its virtues
- concentration
- extraction
The word decoction appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 8 > Sentence 6:
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
Concordance for the word decoction from Moby-Dick.
