a. [ad. L. *concoctīv-us, f. concoquĕre: see CONCOCT and -IVE.]
† 1. Pertaining to digestion (of food); digestive.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, V. 71. The Ventricle … is compassed with heatyng organs, well ayding his concoctiue force.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 524. The concoctive quality of this flesh.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 437. With keen dispatch Of real hunger, and concoctive heate To transubstantiate.
1735. Somerville, Chase, I. 211. Cull each salubrious Plant, with bitter Juice Concoctive stor’d.
fig. 1811. J. Jebb, Corr. (1834), II. 58. My mind is not originative, but concoctive.
† 2. Tending to ripen or mature by heat. Obs.
1730. Thomson, Autumn, 408. The fallow Ground laid open to the Sun, Concoctive.
3. Pertaining to the concoction of a mixture, a story, etc.
1854. Ruskin, Lect. Archit., Addenda, 235. Men who have no imagination, but have learned merely to produce a spurious resemblance of its results by the recipes of composition, are apt to value themselves mightily on their concoctive science.
