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 Con·coct v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concocted; p. pr. & vb. n. Concocting.]
 1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.]
    Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates.   --Cheyne.
 2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.]
 3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.
 4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
    He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune.   --Hayward.
 5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.]
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