concoction

noun7

1. •
   The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.

   • Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions. — 1936
2. •
   A mixture prepared in such a way.

   • 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. — 1954
3. •
   (figurative) Something made up, an invention.
4. •
   (no longer used) Digestion (of food etc.).

   • [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […] — 1624
5. •
   (figurative, no longer used) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.

   • 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. — 1624
6. •
   (no longer used) An abatement of a morbid process, such as a fever, and a return to a normal condition.
7. •
   (no longer used) The act of perfecting or maturing.

   • There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation — 1627