Concoct

CONCOCT, verb transitive [Latin , to cook. See [[Cook]].]

1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment.

The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted.

2. To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom.

3. To ripen.

Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting.