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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
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
Related forms
con·coct·er, con·coc·tor, noun
con·coc·tive, adjective
well-con·coct·ed, adjective
Synonyms
2. invent, fabricate, hatch.
2. invent, fabricate, hatch.
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Word Origin & History
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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