CONCOCTION

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.]

2.
n.

The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

3.
n.

The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. Donne.

4.
n.

Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition. [Obs.]

5.
n.

The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] Bacon.


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