Con*coct" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concocted; p. pr. & vb. n. Concocting.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See Cook.]
1.
To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
[Obs.]
Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates.
Cheyne.
2.
To purify or refine chemically.
[Obs.]
Thomson.
3.
To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.
4.
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.
To mature or perfect; to ripen.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
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