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

One who concocts.

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

Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive. Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. J. Armstrong.

To decompose. [R.] Fuller.

Inconcocted. [Obs.]

Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened. [Obs.] Bacon.

The state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity. [Obs.] Bacon.

To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. Shak.

To pardon; to forgive. A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned. W. Black. It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns. J. C. Shairp.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.

Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. "Crude and inconcoct." Bacon.

To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.

Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

ntrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.