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Definition of Concoct

1. Verb. Make a concoction (of) by mixing.

2. Verb. Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients. "Concoct a strange mixture"

3. Verb. Invent. "Trump up charges"

4. Verb. Devise or invent. "Did he concoct his major works over a short period of time?"; "No-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

Definition of Concoct

1. v. t. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

Definition of Concoct

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

2. Verb. to contrive something using skill or ingenuity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Concoct

1. to prepare by combining ingredients [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Concoct

concludible concluding concludingly conclusible conclusion conclusion of law conclusionary conclusions conclusive conclusive presumption

conclusive presumptions conclusively conclusively presumed conclusiveness conclusory concoct (current term) concocted concocter concocters concocting

concoction concoctions concoctive concoctor concoctors concocts concolor concolorate concolorous concolourous

Literary usage of Concoct

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"... Tasting, concoct, digest, assimilate. And corporeal to incorporeal turn. MILTON Th' unbodied spirit flies And lodges where it lights, in man or beast. ..."

2. The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut: Three Hundred and by Edwin Munroe Bacon (1907)
"... XI The Burning of Springfield With Fledges of Fidelity the Agawam Indians concoct a. " Horrible Plot " — Bands of Philip's Warriors secretly admitted to ..."

3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"... to accompany, from com,it-, stem of comes, a companion ; see Count (l). concoct. .... concoct ..."

4. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"Christians must be like the clean beasts, that parted the hoof and chewed the cud ; they must by heavenly meditation chew truths and concoct truths, ..."

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