English Dictionary

concoction

/kənˈkɒkʃən/

noun

The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients. / A mixture prepared in such a way. / Something made up, an invention. / (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

She mixed a strange concoction of herbs and spices.

意味（1）

The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.

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

意味（2）

A mixture prepared in such a way.

意味（3）

Something made up, an invention.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

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

意味（5）

(obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.

At last , the physicians after a long and stormy voyage , see land ; they have so good signs of the concoction of the disease , as that they may safely proceed to purge .

意味（6）

(obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.

意味（7）

(obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.

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