Confect

Origin

Latin confectus, past participle of conficere, from com- ("together") + facere ("to make"). Akin to comfit. See also confection.

Full definition of confect

Verb

1. To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together 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.joys are still confected with some fears. -- Stirling
• 1629, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet, Travels in PersiaOf this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
2. (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 2Saffron confected in Cilicia,

Noun

1. (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
• HarveyAt supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects.
• 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, ,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