单词 | well-concocted |
释义 | well-concoctedadj. Thoroughly heated or ripened; also figurative. Also: skilfully put together, cleverly fabricated. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized > well well-concocted1563 well-imagined1715 well-forged1813 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 65v Gold..is perfectly concocted with sufficient heate, and mixture of Sulphur, all other metalls, either are not so well concocted, or els they haue not the due quantitie of brimstone. 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. 397 When well concocted matter appeareth, vse this liniment to mundifie withall. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. vi. 324 I opened it by Incision, and discharged a well-concocted Matter. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Georgics in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶1v Sobriety in our riper years is the effect of a well-concocted warmth. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 496 The well concocted juice. 1882 J. S. Blackie Altavona ii. 45 Even for a well-concocted salad..the cook will know the proportions. 1903 Leather Workers Jrnl. July 567/1 Incontrovertible allegations, sustained by a well concocted chain of sense and reason. 2010 G. Brown Black Sun lxii. 408 A well-concocted lie is not equal to the truth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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