Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Concoct

Concoct , transitive verb

[Latin concoctus, past participle of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See Cook.]

1.
To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obsolete]
Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. — Cheyne
2.
To purify or refine chemically. [Obsolete] — Thomson
3.
To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.
4.
To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. — Hayward
5.
To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obsolete] — Bacon