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Webster 1913 Edition


Concoct

Con-coct′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Concocted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Concocting
.]
[L.
concoctus
, p. p. of
concoquere
to cook together, to digest, mature;
con-
+
coquere
to cook. See
Cook
.]
1.
To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
[Obs.]
Food is
concocted
, the heart beats, the blood circulates.
Cheyne.
2.
To purify or refine chemically.
[Obs.]
Thomson.
3.
To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients;
as, to
concoct
a new dish or beverage
.
4.
To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to
concoct
any great fortune.
Hayward.
5.
To mature or perfect; to ripen.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Concoct

CONCOCT

,
Verb.
T.
[L., to cook. See Cook.]
1.
To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment.
The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted.
2.
To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom.
3.
To ripen.
Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting.

Definition 2024


concoct

concoct

English

Verb

concoct (third-person singular simple present concocts, present participle concocting, simple past and past participle concocted)

  1. to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
  2. to contrive something using skill or ingenuity

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