Hypertext Webster Gateway: "concocted"

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.

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