confect
verbEtymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”).
- borrowed from cōnfectus
Definitions
To make up, prepare, or compound
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 feares.
To make into a confection
To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
- 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!
- 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.
The neighborhood
- neighborconfection
- neighborconfectionary
- neighborconfectionery
- neighborconfectioner
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at confect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at confect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at confect
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA