Dictionary
Thesaurus
Reference
Translate
Web
Nearby Entries
confect - 4 dictionary results

con⋅fect

  [v. kuhn-fekt; n. kon-fekt]
Use confect in a Sentence
–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
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source Link To confect
con·fect   (kən-fěkt')   
tr.v.   con·fect·ed, con·fect·ing, con·fects
  1. To make into a confection or preserve.
  2. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source

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.

Confect

Con"fect\, n. A comfit; a confection. [Obs.]

At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. --Harvey.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Search another word or see confect on Thesaurus | Reference
>