CONFECT

candy, confect

(noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

confect, confection, comfit

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

confect

(verb) make or construct

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

confect (third-person singular simple present confects, present participle confecting, simple past and past participle confected)

(transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.

(transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.

Noun

confect (plural confects)

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

Source: Wiktionary


Con*fect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confected; p. pr. & vb. n. Confecting.] Etym: [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to prepare. See Comfit.]

1. To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.] Saffron confected in Cilicia. W. Browne.

2. To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. [Obs.] Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers. Sir T. Herbert. [My joys] are still confected with some fears. Stirling.

Con"fect, n.

Definition: A comfit; a confection. [Obs.] At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. Harvey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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