concoctive, a.
(kənˈkɒktɪv)
[ad. L. *concoctīv-us, f. concoquĕre: see concoct and -ive.]
† 1. Pertaining to digestion (of food); digestive.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man v. 71 The Ventricle..is compassed with heatyng organs, well ayding his concoctiue force. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 524 The concoctive quality of this flesh. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 437 With keen dispatch Of real hunger, and concoctive heate To transubstantiate. 1735 Somerville Chase i. 211 Cull each salubrious Plant, with bitter Juice Concoctive stor'd. |
| fig. 1811 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 58 My mind is not originative, but concoctive. |
† 2. Tending to ripen or mature by heat.
Obs.| 1730 Thomson Autumn 408 The fallow Ground laid open to the Sun, Concoctive. |
3. Pertaining to the concoction of a mixture, a story, etc.
| 1854 Ruskin Lect. Archit. Addenda 235 Men who have no imagination, but have learned merely to produce a spurious resemblance of its results by the recipes of composition, are apt to value themselves mightily on their concoctive science. |