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unconˈcocted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Not digested in the stomach.
1611Florio, Indigesto, vndigested, vnconcocted. 1615Crooke Body of Man 110 The stomacke..receyueth the meate when it is harder and vnconcocted. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iii. 150 The meat..being unconcocted doth encrease the disease, and the symptomes thereof. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. V. 244 The red-beaked toucan..feeds chiefly upon pepper,..gorging itself in such a manner that it voids it crude and unconcocted. 1802Lamb John Woodvil iv. i. 2 A weight of wine lies heavy on my head, The unconcocted follies of last night.
2. Not brought to a proper state or condition; crude, immature.
1649E. Reynolds Hosea iii. 12 Those fruites..are sowre, unsavoury, and unconcocted. 1693Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 250 Erastus affirms..that in Germany there hath been Unripe and Unconcocted Silver found in Mines. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 34 When it [sc. lime] is used too soon.., there will be some small unconcocted Stones in it. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) II. 792/1 The fruits were so crude and unconcocted, that they pined away and decayed.
3. fig. Not properly worked up or elaborated.
c1628Donne Serm. (1640) 599 Ever more there will be some things raw and unconcocted in every church. 1658Osborn Adv. Son Wks. (1673) 89 Such unconcocted Rebellions turn seldom to the hurt of any, but the Parties that promote them. 1745Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 68 Such frothy, unconcocted trifles, such undigested crudities, as a man of learning..would have been ashamed to set his name to. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 201/2 The smoky, verminous, unconcocted doctrine of passive obedience. |