confect — English Dictionary

Verb

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

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

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

   The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.

   More examples (4)

   [My joys] are still confected with some feares.

   Of this alſo were confected the famous everlaſting Lamps and Tapers.

   Ms. Williams, who confected book, music, and lyrics, credits Aesop for inspiring her "musical fable," but the light-weight, pastel little show owes more to Disney than to the ironic perceptions of Aesop.

   The 1227 provincial Council of Trier took a more admonitory approach, warning that a priest sinned mortally if he failed to confect the Eucharist properly, leading the people into idolatry by having them adore mere bread: Likewise the priest who celebrates mass should confect the body of Christ and read the Canon.

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

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   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!

   More examples (1)

   Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a ſpoonful of them eaten in the morning faſting, and as many after each meal is a moſt admirable Remedy for ſuch as are troubled with Wind.

   She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects, cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season and all of the best.

Noun

1. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

   Synonyms

   candy

   Broader terms

   sweetconfection

Verb

1. make or construct

   Broader terms

   producemakecreate

2. make into a confection

   Synonyms

   confectioncomfit

   Broader terms

   assemblepieceput togetherset uptacktack together

   Examples

   This medicine is home-confected