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–verb (used with object)

1.	to make up, compound, or prepare from ingredients or materials: to confect a herbal remedy for colds.

2.	to make into a preserve or confection.

3.	to construct, form, or make: to confect a dress from odds and ends of fabric.

–noun

4.	a preserved, candied, or other sweet confection.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME confecten < L confectus (ptp. of conficere to produce, effect), equiv. to con- con- + -fec- (var. s. of -ficere, comb. form of facere to make; see fact) + -tus ptp. suffix

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con·fect Audio Help (kən-fěkt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. con·fect·ed, con·fect·ing, con·fects

To make into a confection or preserve.
To put together by combining materials: a group of writers who confected a television series.

n. (kŏn'fěkt')
A sweet confection, such as candy.

[Middle English confecten, to prepare, from Latin cōnficere, cōnfect- : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

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confect
noun
1.	a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts [syn: candy]
verb
1.	make or construct
2.	make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected"

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Confect

Com"fit\, n. [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Confect.] A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

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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.]

Saffron confected in Cilicia. --W. Browne.

2. To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. [Obs.]

Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers. --Sir T. Herbert.

[My joys] are still confected with some fears. --Stirling.

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