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語源

From Latin concoctiō.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kənˈkɒkʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈkɑkʃɪn/, [kʰənˈkʰɑkʃɪn], [kʰəŋˈkʰɑkʃɪn]

名詞

concoction (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 concoctions)

1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:

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

2. A mixture prepared in such a way.
3. Something made up, an invention.
4. (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “New York Review of Books”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, page 260:

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

5. (obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
   • 1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555:

     At last , the physicians after a long and stormy voyage , see land ; they have so good signs of the concoction of the disease , as that they may safely proceed to purge .

6. (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
7. (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “9. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

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