decoctive

English

Etymology

From decoct +‎ -ive.

Adjective

decoctive (not comparable)

  1. Serving to decoct.
    • 1801, Newton Horace Winchell, Horace Vaughn Winchell, The Iron Ores of Minnesota, page 26:
      More or less change was effected, however, in nearly all cases, and the augitic and feldspathic and olivinitic minerals were reduced, by the decoctive action of the water, to chloritic and micaceous elements.
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