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Webster 1913 Edition

Concoct

Con-coct′

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Concoct

CONCOCT

,
Verb.
T.
[L., to cook. See Cook.]
1.
To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment.
The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted.
2.
To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom.
3.
To ripen.
Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting.

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