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Webster 1913 Edition
Concoction
Con-coc′tion
,Noun.
[L.
concoctio
.] 1.
A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.
[Obs.]
2.
The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
3.
The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination.
Donne.
4.
(Med.)
Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition.
[Obs.]
5.
The act of perfecting or maturing.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Concoction
CONCOCTION
, [L.]1.
Digestion or solution in the stomach; the process by which food is turned into chyle, or otherwise prepared ot nourish the body; the change which food undergoes in the stomach.2.
Maturation; the process by which morbid matter is separated from the blood or humors, or otherwise change and prepared to be thrown off.3.
A ripening; the acceleration of any thing towards perfection.Definition 2024
concoction
concoction
English
Noun
concoction (plural concoctions)
- (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.260:
- [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.260:
- The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
- A mixture prepared in such a way.
- Something made-up, an invention.
- (obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Donne to this entry?)
- (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
- (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Translations
preparing of substance from many ingredients
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mixture so prepared
French
Etymology
From Latin concoctiōnem.
Noun
concoction f (plural concoctions)
- concoction (mixture)
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin concoctiōnem.
Noun
concoction f (plural concoctions)
- concoction (mixture)