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.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit. vb. 1 To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct. 2 (context obsolete English) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
WordNet
v. make or construct
make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected" [syn: confection, comfit]
Usage examples of "confect".
Pedersen's manuscript my eyes defocused through the page as I envisioned the novel I could confect around these rough recollections, a novel firmly embedded in the conventions of the Western genre, but dealing with wider and more contemporary issues: with the end of a century, the end of an era, the end of a defining, and for American males a limiting, dream.
Bones to confect a little something to ease the pain of laboralthough you might like to try having the Reverend Everything supervise an underwater birthing experience with those cute little dolphins of his.
She had no way to know that, although they bore Basque names, these village people had become thoroughly French under the corrosive cultural pressures of radio, television, and state-controlled education, in which modern history is creatively interpreted to confect that national analgesic, la vérité à la Cinquième République.
Later, she confected word pictures of her little village on the coast.
The poet in Le Cagot had confected for himself the role of the miles gloriosus, the Falstaffian clown—but with a unique difference: his braggadocio was founded on a record of reckless, laughing courage in numberless guerrilla actions against the fascist who oppressed his people in Spain.
And also, as has already been shown, witches are taught by the devil to confect from the limbs of such children an unguent which is very useful for their spells.
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.