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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.
  • transitive verb To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To digest.
  • To purify or sublime; refine by removing the gross or extraneous matter.
  • To ripen; develop.
  • To combine and prepare the materials of, as in cookery; hence, to get up, devise, plan, contrive, plot, etc.: as, to concoct a dinner or a bowl of punch; to concoct a scheme or a conspiracy.
  • To mature; ripen.
  • To digest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
  • transitive verb obsolete To purify or refine chemically.
  • transitive verb To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients.
  • transitive verb To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
  • transitive verb obsolete To mature or perfect; to ripen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
  • verb to contrive something using skill or ingenuity

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb devise or invent
  • verb make a concoction (of) by mixing
  • verb invent
  • verb prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin concoquere, concoct-, to boil together : com-, com- + coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]

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