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Definition of Concoctive
1. a. Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.
Definition of Concoctive
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to concoction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Concoctive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concoctive
Literary usage of Concoctive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"... with a very strong heat, any bony substance, so as to reduce them into a fluid
state ; that which causes or strengthens the concoctive power. ..."
2. The Paradise Lost: a poem in twelve Books by John Milton (1851)
"concoctive, <^c. : With digesting heat to change into another (that is, angelic)
substance. 439. If: Since. 440. Empiric : Versed in experiments. ..."
3. The Relation of Latin to Practical Life: Concrete Illustrations in the Form by Frances Ellis Sabin, Loura Bayne Woodruff (1913)
"... from alere, to nourish— nourishing, pursuit of pulchritude . . Pulchritude,
from pulchritudo, beauty —beauty. concoctive powers ..."
4. Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library (1796)
"... for, besides that when the stomach is too much distended its concoctive power
cannot be exerted with proper force, the tone of the stomach is in danger ..."
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