1. Not digested in the stomach.
1611. Florio, Indigesto, vndigested, vnconcocted.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 110. The stomacke … receyueth the meate when it is harder and vnconcocted.
1651. Wittie, trans. Primrose’s Pop. Err., III. 150. The meat … being unconcocted doth encrease the disease, and the symptomes thereof.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., V. 244. The red-beaked toucan … feeds chiefly upon pepper,… gorging itself in such a manner that it voids it crude and unconcocted.
1802. Lamb, John Woodvil, IV. i. 2. A weight of wine lies heavy on my head, The unconcocted follies of last night.
2. Not brought to a proper state or condition; crude, immature.
1649. E. Reynolds, Hosea, iii. 12. Those fruites … are sowre, unsavoury, and unconcocted.
1693. Sir T. P. Blount, Nat. Hist., 250. Erastus affirms … that in Germany there hath been Unripe and Unconcocted Silver found in Mines.
1726. Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 34. When it [sc. lime] is used too soon…, there will be some small unconcocted Stones in it.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch (1879), II. 792/1. The fruits were so crude and unconcocted, that they pined away and decayed.
3. fig. Not properly worked up or elaborated.
c. 1628. Donne, Serm. (1640), 599. Ever more there will be some things raw and unconcocted in every church.
1658. Osborn, Adv. Son, Wks. (1673), 89. Such unconcocted Rebellions turn seldom to the hurt of any, but the Parties that promote them.
1745. Wesley, Wks. (1872), XII. 68. Such frothy, unconcocted trifles, such undigested crudities, as a man of learning … would have been ashamed to set his name to.
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. I. 201/2. The smoky, verminous, unconcocted doctrine of passive obedience.
