'Confect' definitions:
Definition of 'confect'
(from WordNet)
noun
A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts [syn: candy, confect]
verb
Make or construct
verb
Make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected" [syn: confect, confection, comfit]
Definition of 'Confect'
From: GCIDE
- Confect \Con"fect\, n. A comfit; a confection. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Confect'
From: GCIDE
- Confect \Con*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confected; p. pr. & vb. n. Confecting.] [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to prepare. See Comfit.]
- 1. To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Saffron confected in Cilicia. --W. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers. --Sir T. Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- [My joys] are still confected with some fears. --Stirling. [1913 Webster]