confect

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kənˈfɛkt/

Verb

confect (confects, present participle confecting; past and past participle confected)

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

   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.

   • [My joys] are still confected with some fears.

   • 1629, Sir Thomas Herbert, Travels in Persia

     Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
   • 1613, William Browne, Brittania's Pastorals, book 1, song 2 ↗

     Saffron confected in Cilicia

Noun

confect (plural confects)

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

   • At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects.

   • 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter 1

     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.

Related terms

• confection
• confectionary
• confectionery
• confectioner

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