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Confect

//kənˈfɛkt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit. obsolete

    "Princes and Counties! ſurely a princely teſtimonie, a goodly Counte, Counte Comfect, a ſweete Gallant ſurely, O that I were a man for his ſake!"

  2. 2
    a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct. transitive

    "The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness."

  2. 2
    make into a confection wordnet
  3. 3
    To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like. obsolete, transitive

    "Not all the Ointments brought from Delos Ile; / Nor from the confines of ſeuen-headed Nile; / Nor that brought whence Phœnicians haue abodes; / Nor Cyprus wilde Vine-flowers, nor that of Rhodes, / Nor Roſes-oile from Naples, Capua, / Saffron confected in Cilicia; / Nor that of Quinces, nor of Marioram, / That euer from the Ile of Coös came."

  4. 4
    make or construct wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of comfit, confetto, confit, and konfyt.

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