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English

Etymology

From Latin concocti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?k?k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?k?k??n/, [k??n?k??k??n], [k????k??k??n]

Noun

concoction (countable and uncountable, plural concoctions)

1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
2. A mixture prepared in such a way.
3. Something made up, an invention.
4. (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

   • [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]

5. (obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
6. (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
7. (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.

   • There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin concocti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?k.sj??/

Noun

concoction f (plural concoctions)

1. concoction (mixture)

Further reading

• “concoction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin concocti?nem.

Noun

concoction f (plural concoctions)

1. concoction (mixture)

English

Etymology

From Latin concocti? (“digestion”), from con- (“together”) and coqu? (“cook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?k?kt/, [k????k??kt]

Verb

concoct (third-person singular simple present concocts, present participle concocting, simple past and past participle concocted)

1. To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.

   Synonyms: prepare, mix

   • 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles, Tor Books (?ISBN)

     Pecan shells make good fuel, and they are used by leather tanners to concoct their foul-smelling compounds, and sometimes we mix them with charcoal in hand-soap to make a really good scrubbing agent

   • 2014, Lisa Howard, Healthier Gluten-Free, Fair Winds Press (MA) (?ISBN), page 171:

     The twelve include Jill (she used to be a chicken-and-potatoes girl, but now she's willing to try whatever I concoct), […]

2. (figuratively) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.

   Synonyms: contrive, plot, scheme

   • 2005, Jean Ferris, Into the Wind: Part One, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 161:

     He had two beautiful daughters who fell in love with men he approved of and he wanted to give them the most lavish double wedding he could concoct.

3. (obsolete) To digest.
   • 1703, Thomas Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, page 297:

     For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Fœtus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […]

Derived terms

• concocter
• concoctor
• concoctive

Related terms

• concoction
• decoct

Translations