单词 | concoction |
释义 | concoctionn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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