concocted, ppl. a.
(kənˈkɒktɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1. The earlier ppl. form was concoct.]
Prepared or brought to perfection by heat; digested; ripened, matured; planned, contrived; fabricated.
| 1622–62 Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1673) 59/2 Fellows of such a perfect and concocted malice. c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) I. 364 The flesh that is daily dished upon our tables is but concocted grass. 1663 Gerbier Counsel B iij a, The most concocted and most pure [gold] from el Dorado. 1781 Cowper Truth 496 Maturer years shall happier stores produce, And meliorate the well concocted juice. 1818 Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. vi. 219 An heterogeneous stream of the concocted juices of various trees and plants. 1840 G. S. Faber Regen. 174 No concocted fable or mere ecclesiastical romance. |