Dictionary entry

Concoction

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐coc″tion (?), n. [L. concoctio.] 1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. Donne.

4. (Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition.

5. The act of perfecting or maturing. Bacon.