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verb

Concoct v. t. (past & past part. concocted; pres. part. concocting)

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. (Obs.) "Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates."

To purify or refine chemically. (Obs.)

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

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."

To mature or perfect; to ripen. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... went by, during which both boys said but little, each being busy trying to concoct some scheme by which they might escape. They heard the others talking in low voices, but were unable to catch what ...

— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield

... day, and an enemy of Pope. The implication is that if Pope will not grant Pitholeon's request, the latter will accept Curll's invitation and concoct a new libel against ...

— The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems • Alexander Pope

... upon him the widest possible powers. On his arrival in Velizh, Strakhov first of all arrested Terentyeva, and subjected her to a series of cross-examinations during which he endeavored to put her on what he considered the desirable track. Stimulated by the prosecutor, the prostitute managed to concoct a regular criminal romance. She deposed that she herself had participated in the crime, having lured little Theodore into the homes of Zetlin and Berlin. In Berlin's house, and later on in the ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... said Cochrane blandly. "It isn't necessary. A straight public-relations set-up. We concoct a story and then let it leak out. We make it so good that even the people who don't believe it can't help spreading it." He nodded at Jamison. "Right now, Jamison, we want a theory that the sending ...

— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... firmness, which had cost the "Firm" an hour's painful labour to concoct, brought out the angry spots on Pledge's cheeks and forced some bad language from ...

— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

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