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verb

Concoct v. t. (past & past part. concocted; pres. part. concocting)

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. (Obs.) "Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates."

To purify or refine chemically. (Obs.)

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

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."

To mature or perfect; to ripen. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Concoct" Quotes from Famous Books

... me?—but it is not coming to that. Look here, now, I'll tell you the truth for once; though you don't believe me capable of it. I DID concoct that telegram—and sent it; just as a practical joke; and many a worse one has been only laughed at by honest men and officers. I could show you a bigger joke still—a joke of jokes—on ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... of them, indeed, who appeared to have once been a jovial seaman, intimated that he would be glad to take as many more teaspoonfuls of "that same" as Bellew chose to administer! but the trapper, paying no attention to the suggestion, proceeded to open his store of provisions and to concoct, in his tin tea-kettle, a species of thin soup. While this was simmering, he began to remove the blankets with which Bob Smart ...

— Wrecked but not Ruined • R.M. Ballantyne

... of priesthoods are another source of prevailing opinions concerning a life to come. Many nations, early and late, have been quite under the spiritual direction of priests, and have believed almost every thing they said. Numerous motives conspire to make the priest concoct fictions and exert his power to gain credence for them. He must have an alluringly colored elysium to reward his obedient disciples. When his teachings are rejected and his authority mocked, his class isolation and incensed pride find a natural ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... we used to concoct around the campfires, out of the rich materials collected during the day's ride! Such stews, such soups, such broils, such wonderful commixtures of things diverse in nature and antagonistic in properties such ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... it all," he cried. "Nicholas Weaver was the man who helped Holtzmann concoct the scheme whereby a relative in Chicago was supposed to have died and willed Aaron Woodward ...

— True to Himself • Edward Stratemeyer

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