CONCOCT, v.t. [L., to cook. See Cook.]
1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment.The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted.2. To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom.3. To ripen.Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting.