CONCOCT

v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

2.
v.

To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] Thomson.

3.
v.

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

4.
v.

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.
v.

To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] Bacon.

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