Meaning of Concoction | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
   countable, uncountable
2. A mixture prepared in such a way.
   countable, uncountable
3. Something made up, an invention.
   countable, uncountable
4. Digestion (of food etc.).
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
   countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable
6. Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. The act of perfecting or maturing.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.”

“Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy.”

“[Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]”

“At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge.”

“There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation”

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