con·coct

[kon-kokt, kuhn-]
verb (used with object)
1.
to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cookery: to concoct a meal from leftovers.
2.
to devise; make up; contrive: to concoct an excuse.

Origin:
1525–35; < Latin concoctus (past participle of concoquere to cook together), equivalent to con- con- + coc-, variant stem of coquere to boil, cook1 (akin to Greek péptein; see pepsin, peptic) + -tus past participle ending

con·coct·er, con·coc·tor, noun
con·coc·tive, adjective
well-con·coct·ed, adjective


2. invent, fabricate, hatch.
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concoct (kənˈkɒkt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
1.  to make by combining different ingredients
2.  to invent; make up; contrive
 
[C16: from Latin concoctus cooked together, from concoquere, from coquere to cook]
 
con'cocter
 
n
 
con'coctor
 
n
 
con'coctive
 
adj

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concoct
1530s, from L. concoctus, pp. of concoquere "to boil together, prepare," from com- "together" + coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). First expanded metaphorically beyond cooking 1792.
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Example sentences
The life stories are more vivid than any theory one could concoct to explain
  them.
They concoct ways to amuse themselves out of necessity.
The challenge facing them was to concoct a show for.
And the schemes its characters concoct don't add up to crafty gamesmanship.
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