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Concocter

Concocter \Con*coct"er\, n. One who concocts.

Usage examples of "concocter".

Immediately after the 14th of July," 1789, he organized in his quarter of the city[63] a small independent republic, aggressive and predominant, the center of the faction, a refuge for the riff-raff and a rendezvous for fanatics, a pandemonium composed of every available madcap, every rogue, visionary, shoulder-hitter, newspaper scribbler and stump-speaker, either a secret or avowed plotter of murder, Camille Desmoulins, Fréron, Hébert, Chaumette, Clootz, Théroigne, Marat, -- while, in this more than Jacobin State, the model in anticipation of that he is to establish later, he reigns, as he will afterwards reign, the permanent president of the district, commander of the battalion, orator of the club, and the concocter of bold undertakings.

This fellow”—pointing to Campo—“was the concocter and leader of the plot.

His appearance was as normal and noneccentric as his handwiriting, and he might have been a lawyer or doctor or chemist, rather than a concocter of bizarre fiction.

She began to feel as though she was employed by a sleazy tabloid, not as a reporter but as a concocter of pieces about space aliens living under Cleveland, half gorilla and half human babies born to amoral female zoo keepers, and inexplicable rains of frogs and chickens in Tajikistan.

The concocters of the theory evidently overlooked these rights, or considered them of no importance.

The damsels, the concocters of the joke, kept their eyes down, not daring to look at their master and mistress.

And Cide Hamete says, moreover, that for his part he considers the concocters of the joke as crazy as the victims of it, and that the duke and duchess were not two fingers' breadth removed from being something like fools themselves when they took such pains to make game of a pair of fools.