Con*coc"tion (?), n. [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 1913.