Concoct \Con*coct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concocted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concocting}.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See {Cook}.] 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.] --Thomson.
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.] --Bacon.
During the raging bull market, investors often were willing to scoop up any new security Wall Street could concoct.
"A doctor or a lawyer understands the system, knows how to exploit it and can concoct massive frauds," says Lee J. Dobkin, an assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia who prosecuted the Burke case.
Mary, a 58-year-old Brooklyn woman, sat tearful as counselor Ann Quigley tried to concoct a repayment plan for the $12,056 in credit card debts she racked up over two years.
Four variations of the winter's most prevalent flu type have been circulating in the United States, and that could pose a tricky question for researchers trying to concoct next winter's flu vaccine, health officials said Thursday.
Now I know why." Court documents, including a record of her first conviction for forging checks in 1948, paint the picture of a conniving, manipulative woman who can concoct a story for any occasion.
Or that this group of professional agreers will produce real change in the way they concoct federal budgets?
Outside directors generally control the compensation committees that concoct board-member pay deals, subject to the full board's approval.
Sometime in 1789 _ probably September, according to the Dallas-based Bourbon Information Bureau _ the Rev. Elijah Craig mixed spring water, corn, rye, barley malt and who knows what else to concoct bourbon.
France's troubled computer maker may suffer from many of the same ills as its one-time mentor IBM, but the French government has helped concoct a very different remedy.
The delicate interaction of bronze and gold have posed a so-far unsolved challenge _ to concoct a coating to protect the masterpiece from outdoor fpollution after restoration.
While Mr. Arkin doesn't condone insider trading, he believes that seeing how his clients got into trouble has helped him concoct a fail-safe strategy.
He said some foreign correspondents "did concoct and spread rumors" about Deng's health.