concoction

From Latin concoctiō.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˈkɒkʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈkɑkʃɪn/, ,

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concoction (countable and uncountable, plural concoctions)

1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:

     Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.

2. A mixture prepared in such a way.
3. Something made up, an invention.
4. (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “New York Review of Books”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 260:

     [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]

5. (obsolete, figurative) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
   • 1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: , London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: , Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, →OCLC:

     At last , the physicians after a long and stormy voyage , see land ; they have so good signs of the concoction of the disease , as that they may safely proceed to purge .

6. (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
7. (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:

     There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation

From Latin concoctiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.kɔk.sjɔ̃/

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concoction f (plural concoctions)

1. concoction (mixture)

• “concoction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Latin concoctiōnem.

concoction f (plural concoctions)

1. concoction (mixture)