confect
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kənˈfɛkt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]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.
- 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.
- 1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Aurora:
- [My joys] are still confected with some feares.
- 1629, Sir Thomas Herbert, Travels in Persia:
- Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
- 2015, Thomas M. Izbicki, The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law, page 114:
- 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.
- (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
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cōnfectum.[1] Doublet of comfit, confetto, confit, and konfyt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]confect (plural confects)
- (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing:
- Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly count—confect; a sweet gallant, surely!
- 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian:
- Caraway confects, once only dipped in sugar, and a spoonful of them eaten in the morning fasting, and as many after each meal, is a most admirable remedy for those that are troubled with wind.
- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ “confect, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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