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Academician Bergen Evans, an English professor at Northwestern who doubles as the question concoctor for The $64,000 Question, takes the easygoing view that language is what its users make of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

It makes him the easy victim of a plot which would otherwise only have ensnared its concoctor.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

Hum.,’—abbreviation of humbug—or, as their concoctor used to call them, ‘Humbugeraneous Pills.’

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell

In the mean time 'tis well that the Noble concoctor Has succeeded in ousting the family Doctor.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehood—a poor hoax—the lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-liner—of some wretched concoctor of accidents in Cocaigne.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan