The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confect \Con*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confected; p. pr. & vb. n. Confecting.] [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to prepare. See Comfit.]
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To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.]
Saffron confected in Cilicia.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of confect English)
Usage examples of "confecting".
But he likes well that "they do not observe the confecting of the Ointment under any certain constellation.
Alice Perrers, the mistress pf Edward III, was not only reputed to have infatuated the old King by occult spells, but her physician (believed to be a mighty sorcerer) was arrested on a charge of confecting love philtres and talismans.