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Definition of Concocts
1. concoct [v] - See also: concoct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concocts
Literary usage of Concocts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Inside Story of Austro-German Intrigue: Or, How the World War was by Josef Goričar, Lyman Beecher Stowe (1920)
"... concocts THE NOTORIOUS PROCHASKA AFFAIR HOW THE THIRD ATTEMPT TO START THE
WAR FAILED NOTHING ever kindled this spirit in Austria as did the single word ..."
2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"He that digests or concocts his food ; a strong vessel, wherein to boil, with a
very strong heat, any bony substance, so as to reduce them into a fluid ..."
3. Random Recollections by Henry Brewster Stanton (1887)
"John C. Spencer concocts the Canal Bill of 1851. AFTER I removed from Boston to
Seneca Falls, in 1847, I became associated in the famous suit of the Burden ..."
4. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1837)
"... herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone,
have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1861)
"The sun, as some think, doth not create a new lifa The truth is, a sensitive life
is but the spirits of the element, which the sun concocts and ..."
6. Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood by John Green Curtis (1915)
"... beaten, and prepared.60 Harvey also cites Galen as saying that the parenchyma
of the lung concocts spirits out of air as the flesh of the liver concocts ..."
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