concoct Copy link Outline 1. fingo, finxi, fictum, 32. conflo, 1 (to blow up or together3. excōgĭto, 1 • concoct: i. e. to devise (q. v.); but usu. in bad or ironical sense: 1. fingo, finxi, fictum, 3: v. TO FABRICATE. 2. conflo, 1 (to blow up or together: prob. with an allusion to the work of a smith): to c. guilty compacts and alliances, nefarias scelerum pactiones et societates c., Cic.: Vell.: v. to excite, stir up. 3. excōgĭto, 1: v. to devise, contrive.
CONCOCT Copy link • CONCOCTto digest, concoquere (TR. and INTR., PROP.; then figuratively both, to digest a matter, e.g., anything one has read, etc., as Sen., Ep., 84, 6, and to submit to, or to bear anything or anybody, as in Cic., ad Div., 9, 4, med; Liv., 4, 15). To contrive or to plot, invenire: reperire (to find out, the former accidentally; the latter, after reflection): excogitare (to strike out by thinking, concoct): fingere: comminisci (to invent, to contrive, design): coquere: concoquere (to design, brood over, or hatch, as it were): machinari (to contrive cunningly): ementiri (to invent falsely): dolos nectere, producere (to cabal). Vid: CABAL.