concoction

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.

   “Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.”

   “Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A mixture prepared in such a way.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Something made up, an invention.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Digestion (of food etc.).

   “[Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]”

5. (countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable)The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.

   “At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge.”

6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)An abatement of a morbid process, such as a fever, and a return to a normal condition.
7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of perfecting or maturing.

   “There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation”