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Concoction

noun

Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients. Synonyms: intermixture, mixture. "He drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"

An occurrence of an unusual mixture.

The invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose. "She has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories"

The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components. Synonym: confection.

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"Concoction" Quotes from Famous Books

... pathology, or that doctrine of the nature of disease which ascribed all ailments to excess, deficiency, or ill "concoction" of some one of the four humors (yellow and black bile, blood, and phlegm), had not yet lost its hold on men's convictions, or at least not further than to make them look upon exposure to cold and errors of diet as amply explanatory of all diseases not plainly infectious. The medical writers ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

... dips a cup or mug in a concoction of sulphur, tar, vinegar, and castoreum, just removed from boiling-point, and, forming a circle round the werwolf, they souse him all over with this unpleasant and painfully hot mixture, calling ...

— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell

... largest public is for writers like Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne or Mr. William Le Queux. These more nearly represent the popular ideal in a "novel of incident." For the former I have some respect. He shows ingenuity in his concoction of improbable plots. In Captain Kettle there is at least some attention to character—of a freakish kind—and something of atmosphere which gives it a mock-romantic interest. It holds the multitude by reason of the thrilling sensations extracted from incidents wholly ...

— Personality in Literature • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

... taking the paper from Uncle Ben's reluctant hand, "how much of this is a concoction of yours and Rupe's—and how much is a true story? Do you ...

— Cressy • Bret Harte

... unlike the sober announcement that the earth is round or that the sun does not revolve about it. Before Harvey's time, however, it was considered as an organ that was "in some mysterious way the source of vitality and warmth, as an animated crucible for the concoction of blood and the ...

— A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

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