Hypertext Webster Gateway: "concoct"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Concoct \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
concoct
v 1: make a concoction (of) my mixing
2: prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange
mixture" [syn: {cook up}]
3: of charges [syn: {trump up}]
4: devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich
quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece
of software" [syn: {think up}, {think of}, {dream up}, {hatch}]
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