Word of the day: decoct

The word of the day is decoct:

1. to extract the flavor or essence of by boiling.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decocted)

"Combining literal interpretation with an understanding of context, epigraphers (decipherers of ancient writing) have spent the last thirty years hauling submerged chunks of Maya history to the surface.  David Stuart, a Mayanist at Harvard, decocted the encounter between Chak Tok Ich'aak and the Teotihuacán expedition in 2000."

 - Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus