Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-COC'TION, n. [L. concoctio.]

1. Digestion or solution in the stomach; the process by which food is turned into chyle, or otherwise prepared to nourish the body; the change which food undergoes in the stomach. – Coxe. Encyc.
2. Maturation; the process by which morbid matter is separated from the blood or humors, or otherwise changed and prepared to be thrown off.
3. A ripening; the acceleration of any thing toward perfection. – Johnson.