confect

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English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (together) + facere (to make).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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confect (third-person singular simple present confects, present participle confecting, simple 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.
    • 1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Aurora:
      [My joys] are still confected with some feares.
    • 1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. [], 4th edition, London: [] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 309:
      Of this alſo were confected the famous everlaſting Lamps and Tapers.
    • 1973 December 22, Jonathan M. Cross, “The Fag In The Fifth Row”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 5:
      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.
    • 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.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
    • 1613, William Browne, “The Second Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The First Booke, London: [] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC, page 39:
      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.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin cōnfectum.[1] Doublet of comfit, confetto, confit, and konfyt.

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Noun

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confect (plural confects)

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

References

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  1. ^ confect, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.