Confect Definition
kən-fĕkt
confects
verb
To make into a confection or preserve.
American Heritage
To prepare or make, esp. by mixing or combining.
Webster's New World
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noun
A sweet confection, such as candy.
American Heritage
1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter 1
She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects, cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season, and all of the best.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Confect
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Middle English confecten to prepare from Latin cōnficere cōnfect- com- intensive pref. com– facere to make dhē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Latin confectus, past participle of conficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”). Akin to comfit. See also confection.
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