concoction

noun concoctions

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.
2. countable, uncountable A mixture prepared in such a way. Years later, she had found out about the Voodoo drink - a concoction of rum, gunpowder, grave-dirt and human blood. She almost retched as the taste came back to her mouth.
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