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concocter en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English concoct Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English concocter From concoct + -er.

Meanings

1. One who or that concocts.
   • Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel She took those pills from the pill concocter, And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.
   • The idea that Milton's imitatio operates through a process of gathering and culling rather than one of sublimating and assimilating cuts against the grain of much recent criticism, which views Milton as the great concocter/transumer. 2004, David B. Goldstein, Recipes for authorship:

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