concoction
/kənˈkɑkʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.81 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions."
- "Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy."
- "Years later, she had found out about the Voodoo drink - a concoction of rum, gunpowder, grave-dirt and human blood. She almost retched as the taste came back to her mouth."
- "[Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]"
- "At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge."
- "There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation"
Etymology
From Latin concoctiō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *pekʷ-, concoctiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kənˈkɑkʃən/
- British English: /kənˈkɒkʃən/