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Webster 1913 Edition

Confect

Con-fect′

,
Verb.
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.

Con′fect

,
Noun.
A comfit; a confection.
[Obs.]
At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway
confects
.
Harvey.

Webster 1828 Edition

Confect

CONFECT

,
Verb.
T.
To make sweetmeats. [Not used. See Comfit.]

CONFECT

,
Noun.
[L., See Comfit.] Something prepared with sugar or honey, as fruit, hergs, roots and the like; a sweet-meat.

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