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单词 concoction
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concoctionn.

/kənˈkɒkʃən/
Etymology: < Latin concoctiōnem digestion, noun of action < concoquĕre to concoct v.
1.
a. Digestion (of food). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion
defyingc1315
digestionc1386
digest1398
seething1398
concoction?1531
concocting1541
decoction1541
digesting1541
digesture1565
enduing1575
fleeting1581
elixation1621
coction1667
?1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxi. sig. fiij A man hauing due concoction and digestion as is expedient.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. i. f. 76v Concoction is an alteration in the stomacke of meates and drynkes..wherby they are made lyke to the substance of the body.
1706 J. Potter Archæologia Græca (ed. 2) II. iv. xx. 405 The Heroes did not rest after Meals for the better Concoction of their Meat.
1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller ii. viii. 135 Cinnamon..strengthens the Viscera, assists Concoction.
1788 London Mag. 32 Perfect concoction of the food.
b. The old physiology recognized three processes: first concoction, digestion in the stomach and intestines; second concoction, the process whereby the chyme so formed is changed into blood; third concoction, secretion.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > [noun]
third concoction1594
incoction1607
secretion1646
secernment1822
resecretion1830
neurosecretion1940
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion > digestive process
distribution1589
concoction1594
absorption1844
peptic digestion1877
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > formation of blood > [noun] > by digestive system
second concoction1594
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 355 This [second] concoction is perfected in the small veines, that are dispersed throughout the body of the liuer.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 173 In this Triple faigned Concoction, there is a three-folde errour.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. ii. 21 Humors, of the third Concoction, Sweat, and Teares.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 7 The like also would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 71 We have proved these Animal Spirits to be the ultimate result of all the concoctions of the Body.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) The first Concoction is made in the Stomach by a Kind of Ferment.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (at cited word) What alterations are made in the blood-vessels, which may be called the second concoction, and that in the nerves, fibres and minutest vessels, the third and last concoction.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. v. 91 From what part, and by what concoction, in the human body, these principles are generated and derived.
c. figurative and in allusive phrases: e.g. a fault or error in the first concoction, i.e. in the initial stage, in the very beginning. Obsolete.
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a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) xv. 505 This fault in the first concoction, is never after amended in the second.
1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices sig. *3 By former Subscriptions they had allowed what was since of so hard concoction to them.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. Ep. Ded. These [errors in education], like faults in the first Concoction, that are never mended in the second or third.
1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 148 Every Fault, every Failure in the Flax, is an Error in the first Concoction, not to be cured afterwards by any Skill or Labour.
1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 104 A chaos..such as the laws of this one country are doomed to be,—more particularly in their first concoction.
2.
a. Ripening, maturing, or bringing to a state of perfection; also, the state of perfection so produced: maturation of what is coarse, impure, or crude; ‘alteration of matter by moist heat’. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being in preparation > making or becoming mature
ripingeOE
concoction1555
hatching1555
ripening1561
maturation1605
incubation1614
gestation1615
coction1683
development1724
developing1744
ageing1853
maturing1897
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 336v Puritie of substaunce & perfecte concoction which is in golde aboue all other metals.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 66 Syluer..hath indifferent good concoction in the earth, but it wanteth sufficient heat in the mixtur, that maketh it pale.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. i. 3 Quintessences much laboured, circulated and wrought by digestions, concoctions, and fermentations.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §838 The Degrees of Alteration, of one Body into another, from Crudity to perfect Concoction, which is the Ultimity of that Action or Processe.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 372 Precious stones..When..they have..breathed out all their grosse matter, and received another concoction from the sunne, then they become precious.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 94 b The air..being not kept in motion either by Sun or Winds, wants its due concoction.
figurative.1630 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 317 I shall need no long concoction in the grave, but hasten to the resurrection.
b. The ‘ripening’ of morbific matter, fitting it for elimination from the living body. (According to Hippocrates, the second stage of disease.) See coction n. 4.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > maturation
coction1572
concoction1676
maturation1818–20
1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 131 The first [sc. Summer Quartan Fever] is shorter..from..clemency of the Air, which helps concoction.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 43 Hippocrates..ascribed the commotion [in fevers] to a fermentation, concoction, or ebullition, by which the noxious matter was separated from the sound humours.
3. Baking or cooking. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun]
pot?c1225
cooking1596
coction1605
cocture1662
concoction1680
kitchening1842
slow cooking1851
pancake-making1904
cook-up1911
pot wrestling1914
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 80 Raw Flesh..without the Concoction of Fire to prepare it for their Stomacks.
4.
a. The preparation of a medical potion, a soup, drink, or the like, from a variety of ingredients.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > preparation of something for use > from a number of ingredients
hodge-podge1615
concoction1891
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being prepared or ready > a substance prepared for use
preparation1590
parature1656
concoction1891
1891 N.E.D. at Concoction Mod. Engaged in the concoction of whisky punch.
b. concrete. A broth, drink, etc., so concocted; any mixture that suggests such preparation.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > a preparation made by mixing
confectiona1387
mixtiona1398
composition1555
compose1581
commistion1609
concocture1612
compositum1652
concoctiona1851
a1851 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 2nd Ser. Night Sketches A concoction of mud and liquid filth, ancle-deep, leg-deep, neck-deep.
5.
a. The elaborate or ingenious composition, or making up (of a story, plot, scheme) to suit a purpose.(Cf. Boswell's Johnson (1887) III. 259, which implies that ‘concoction of a play’ had no meaning to Johnson.)
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun]
invention1526
forgery1582
fiction1605
romance1668
fabrication1790
whole cloth1823
concoction1831
fictionizing1938
1831 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 9 Oct. 641/2 The principles which would guide his party in the concoction of a Reform.
1859 B. D'Israeli in I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. (new ed.) III. 6 Jonson's inventive talent was never more conspicuous than in the concoction of court Masques.
1891 N.E.D. at Concoction Mod. They are absorbed in the concoction of a new plan for swindling their creditors.
b. A statement or narrative fictitiously made up.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story
fablec1300
fantasy1362
feigning1388
invention?a1513
story?1531
finctionc1540
figment1577
fingure1593
fiction1599
knavigation1613
flam1632
gun1720
novel1764
fabrication1790
fudge1797
gag1805
myth1840
make-up1844
concoction1885
fictionalization1954
1885 Manch. Examiner 13 Feb. 5/1 His affidavit was a concoction from beginning to end.
1885 Liverpool Daily Post 1 June 5/2 [He] admitted that his story was a concoction.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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