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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Cŏc'tion, n.

noun

n. [Lat. coctio.]

  1. The act of boiling. Boyle.
  2. (Med.) (a.) The process of alteration undergone in the digestive organs by food. [Obs.] (b.) The alteration experienced by morbific matter before elimination. Dunglison.