[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CONCOCT; † digesting, etc.
1540. Elyot, Image Gov. (1556), 72 b. The concoctynge and digistyng of that, whiche the bodie receiveth.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., II. 27, marg. note. The thinne entrails serve for the carrying, and through-concocting of the chyle.
