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confect
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun confect has 1 sense
- confect(n = noun.food) candy - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; Array is a kind of confection, sweet
has particulars: candy bar, carob bar, hard candy, brandyball, patty, bonbon, brittle, toffee, toffy, butterscotch, candy cane, candy corn, caramel, candyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugar, dragee, dragee, fondant, fudge, gumdrop, honey crisp, mint, mint candy, horehound, jelly bean, jelly egg, candy kiss, kiss, licorice, liquorice, life saver, all-day sucker, lollipop, sucker, lozenge, marshmallow, marchpane, marzipan, nougat, nougat bar, nut bar, peanut bar, popcorn ball, praline, rock candy, rock, rock candy, sugar candy, sugarplum, taffy, chocolate truffle, truffle, turkish delight, easter egg
Verb confect has 2 senses
- confect(v = verb.creation) Array - make or construct; Array is one way to create, make, produce
- confect(v = verb.creation) comfit, confection - make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected" is one way to assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun confection2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
confect, v. t. [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to prepare. See Comfit.].
- To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [1913 Webster]"Saffron confected in Cilicia." [1913 Webster]
- To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. [1913 Webster]"Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers." [1913 Webster]"[My joys] are still confected with some fears." [1913 Webster]
confect, n.
A comfit; a confection. [1913 Webster]
"At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
confect, v.tr. literary make by putting together ingredients.
Etymology
L conficere confect- put together (as com-, facere make)
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