decoct

verb6

1. •
   To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
2. •
   (figurative) To reduce or diminish.

   • […] and that rednesse / may neuere tournë to whiteness / (as clerkës sayn,) but yef so be / it be decoct by charyte, […] — 1904
3. •
   To make an infusion.
4. •
   (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.

   • Can sodden Water, / A Drench for sur-reyn’d Iades, their Barly broth, / Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat? — 1599
5. •
   To digest in the stomach.

   • Here she [the body] attracts, and there she doth retain; / There she decocts, and doth the food prepare; / There she distributes it to ev’ry vein, / There she expels what she may fitly spare. — 1626
6. •
   To devise.