Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-COCT', v.t. [L. concoquo, concoctum; con and coquo, to cook. See Cook.]

1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment. The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted. – Cheyne.
2. To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom. – Thomson.
3. To ripen. Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting. – Bacon.