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Concoction

noun

Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients. Synonyms: intermixture, mixture. "He drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"

An occurrence of an unusual mixture.

The invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose. "She has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories"

The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components. Synonym: confection.

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"Concoction" Quotes from Famous Books

... the heads of black snakes, and he thought of him at that moment. The steward appeared, and when the arrangements were made, the ocean in which Barker proposed to drown his cares was found to consist of a small glass of a very diluted concoction of champagne, bitters, limes, and soda water. The Duke had some, ...

— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford

... disease (largely imaginary) and cure (wholly mythical). To extract from the great and shining ones of political life commendations of Certina; to beguile statesmen who had never tasted that strange concoction into asseverating their faith in the nostrum's infallibility for any and all ailments; to persuade into fulsome print solemnly asinine Senators and unwarily flattered Congressmen—that was the touchstone of his living. Some the Demon Rum betrayed into his hands. Others he won by sheer ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... with a round, ruddy face and twinkling blue eyes he would have laughed as heartily as it was in his power to laugh. Yet such was the fact. A little man who looked less like a detective than a commercial traveller selling St. Peter's Oil or some other cheerful concoction, with manners as gentle and a voice as soft as a spring zephyr, who always took off his hat when he came into a business office, seemingly bashful to the point of self-effacement, was the one who snatched Charles F. Dodge from the borders of Mexico and held him ...

— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train

... the chaplainship of Siguenza. In this new situation he devoted himself with renewed ardor to his theological studies, occupying himself diligently, moreover, with Hebrew and Chaldee, his knowledge of which proved of no little use in the concoction of ...

— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott

... Protestant Reformers, and other eminent writers. His conclusion was that the notion of the indissolubility of marriage, or even the modified law of England and of other countries, authorizing divorce only for certain gross reasons, were mere relics of superstitious tradition, the concoction of the Canonists and Sacramentalists in the ages of sacerdotal tyranny, unworthy of more enlarged views of justice and liberty, and a canker and cause of incalculable misery in the heart of modern society. Again ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

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