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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

confit

, prop. a p. p., fr.

confire

to preserve, pickle, fr. L.

conficere

to prepare;

con-

facere

to make. See

, and cf.

A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

Verb.

To preserve dry with sugar.

The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . .
Thou

comfitest

in sweets to make it last.

Cowley.