What does "concoction" mean?

Concoction: The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. Donne.
  2. 3.(Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition. [Obs.]
  3. 4.The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] Bacon.

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