CONCOCT, verb transitive [Latin , to cook. See Cook.] 1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment. The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted. 2. To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom. 3. To ripen. Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting.
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