COMFIT

comfit

(noun) candy containing a fruit or nut

confect, confection, comfit

(verb) make into a confection; “This medicine is home-confected”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

comfit (plural comfits)

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

Verb

comfit (third-person singular simple present comfits, present participle comfiting, simple past and past participle comfited)

(transitive) To preserve dry with sugar.

Etymology 2

Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.

Noun

comfit (plural comfits)

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

Source: Wiktionary

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Com"fit, n. Etym: [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Confect.]

Definition: A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

Com"fit, v. t.

Definition: To preserve dry with sugar. The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. Cowley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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