Comfit

//ˈkʌmfɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.

    "Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife."

  2. 2
    A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force. Australia

    "A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose.."

  3. 3
    candy containing a fruit or nut wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make into a dry sugared confection. obsolete, transitive

    "17th c, Abraham Cowley, The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar: The Muse, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5, page 302, The fruit which does ſo quickly waſte, // Men ſcarce can ſee it, much leſs taſte, // Thou comfiteſt in ſweets to make it laſt."

  2. 2
    make into a confection wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.

Etymology 2

From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.

Etymology 3

Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.

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