About The Word Confect
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Confect
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What's The Definition Of Confect?
[v] prepare from ingredients; "This medicine is home-confected"
[v] make or construct Synonyms | Synonyms for Confect: comfit | confection Related Terms | Find terms related to Confect: See Also | assemble | create | make | piece | produce | put together | set up | tack | tack together Confect In Webster's Dictionary \Con*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confected}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Confecting}.] [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. A comfit; a confection. [Obs.] At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. --Harvey. |
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