concoction

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  1. Digestion. Also, the eating of sundrie sorts of meat require often pottes of drinke, which hinder concoction. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 252. Your words of hard concoction, [your] rude poetry, Have much impaired my health; try sense another while. Shirley, Hyde Park, ii. 4. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction. Milton, Areopagitica, p. 16.
  2. The process by which morbid matter was formerly supposed to be separated from the blood or humors, or otherwise changed and prepared to be thrown off; maturation. This hard rolling is between concoction and a simple maturation. Bacon, Nat. Hist.
  3. A ripening or maturing; maturity. The constantest notion of concoction is, that it should signify the degrees of alteration of one body into another, from crudity to perfect concoction. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 838. All this mellows me for heaven, and so ferments in this world, as I shall need no long concoction in the grave, but hasten to the resurrection. Donne, Letters, lxxxii.
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  • But, my gawd, what a wonderful reminder of that childhood pleasure Bill Smith offers us for two or three weeks each Spring, when you can sit outside in the lovely courtyard at Crook's Corner and end an excellent meal with this cold concoction which is the equivalent of getting about five minutes worth of perfect Honeysuckle suckles straight off the vine.
  • That chemical concoction, the one which made the function of breathing unnecessary, was certain to prove invaluable to American medical science. —  036 - Mystery Under the Sea
  • I finally get up the courage to crack open a Junior packet, but can't bring myself to finish the concoction, which is reminiscent of fermented orange juice. —  This Just In
  • And yet we're still attracted to this weird concoction, a kind of milk slushie. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • I'm not sure exactly what this concoction is called outside of the individual flavor names, but for sake of ease I'm going to call it the Frozen Misc. —  Branded in the 80s!
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  1. = French concoction = Portuguese concocção = Italian concozione, from Latin concoctio(n-), from concoquere, past participle concoctus, digest, prepare: see concoct.
 

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