Concoct /(?)/

Con·coct

Concoct

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.]