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Definition of Concocter
1. n. One who concocts.
Definition of Concocter
1. Noun. One who, or that which, concocts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Concocter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concocter
Literary usage of Concocter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... seemingly the inventor of the " warming-pan story " (concerning the birth of
James, the Old Pretender) and concocter of fictitious Jacobite plots. ..."
2. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"It is as if Patroclus had been smitten with sudden epilepsy, one well-known
feature of which is the twitching and rolling of the eyes. The concocter of ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1873)
"... junior, could not himself have been the ingenious concocter of a story the
straightforward truth of which he could thus ignorantly distort upon the face ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"... concocter of intellectual dramas snaps off his story, with no need of help
from the manager, because it is one line of ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"That Home (Rule) made Jam, my dear MICK, is a sham, Its concocter is simply half
crazy. What, you cock an eye at his cupboard ? ..."
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