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concoctive, a.|kənˈkɒktɪv|
[ad. L. *concoctīv-us, f. concoquĕre: see concoct and -ive.]
†1. Pertaining to digestion (of food); digestive.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 71 The Ventricle..is compassed with heatyng organs, well ayding his concoctiue force. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 524 The concoctive quality of this flesh. 1667Milton P.L. v. 437 With keen dispatch Of real hunger, and concoctive heate To transubstantiate. 1735Somerville Chase i. 211 Cull each salubrious Plant, with bitter Juice Concoctive stor'd.
fig.1811J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 58 My mind is not originative, but concoctive.
†2. Tending to ripen or mature by heat. Obs.
1730Thomson Autumn 408 The fallow Ground laid open to the Sun, Concoctive.
3. Pertaining to the concoction of a mixture, a story, etc.
1854Ruskin Lect. Archit. Addenda 235 Men who have no imagination, but have learned merely to produce a spurious resemblance of its results by the recipes of composition, are apt to value themselves mightily on their concoctive science. |