con·coct

(kən-kŏkt′)

tr.v. con·coct·ed, con·coct·ing, con·cocts

1. To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.

2. To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: concoct a plan.

[Latin concoquere, concoct-, to boil together : com-, com- + coquere, to cook; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

con·coct′er, con·coc′tor n.

con·coc′tion n.

con·coc′tive adj.

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References in classic literature

So down they sat, And to thir viands fell, nor seemingly The Angel, nor in mist, the common gloss Of Theologians, but with keen dispatch Of real hunger, and concoctive heate To transubstantiate; what redounds, transpires Through Spirits with ease; nor wonder; if by fire Of sooty coal the Empiric Alchimist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn Metals of drossiest Ore to perfet Gold As from the Mine.

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