Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make into a confection or preserve.
- v. To put together by combining materials: a group of writers who confected a television series.
- n. A sweet confection, such as candy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make up or compound; especially, to make into sweetmeats.
- To put together; construct; compose; form.
- Confected; compounded.
- n. A preparation with sugar or honey, as of fruit, herbs, roots, and the like; a confection; a comfit; a sweetmeat.
Wiktionary
- v. To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
- v. obsolete To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
- n. obsolete A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.
- v. obsolete To construct; to form; to mingle or mix.
- n. obsolete A comfit; a confection.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make into a confection
- v. make or construct
- n. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
Etymologies
- Latin confectus, past participle of conficere, from com- ("together") + facere ("to make"). Akin to comfit. See also confection. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English confecten, to prepare, from Latin cōnficere, cōnfect- : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Do we come together to "confect" euchraist or do we come together to celebrate that which always and everywhere is?”
“Polls appear daily; conjecture abounds continually; media confect a frenzy.”
The Guardian: US primaries promise little – and this year could deliver even less | Gary Younge
“Pureeing their own research with published sources, Mr. Summers and Ms. Swan confect a circumstantial case involving protection money paid by members of the huge royal family to keep bin Laden's terrorism outside the kingdom's borders, intercession by Saudi cultural agents—likely spies—to help two of the hijackers in California, and stonewalling by Saudi intelligence after the attacks.”
“I've managed to confect vague sympathy, but can't help feeling the snub would be put into perspective if female athletes would only turn to their well-thumbed copies of classical comedy.”
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“Instead of having the studio confect costume jewelry for the film, DeMille ordered exact reproductions of ancient Egyptian jewelry that used real gold and precious stones.”
“However, the truth is that if we want a body of parliamentarians who will moderate the whole process as much in the cause of national sovereignty as in those such as family values, and as much in the cause of peace as in those such as social justice, then we are going to have to contrive and confect those parliamentarians for ourselves.”
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“What projects would they confect after rambling about the place where outbreaks of three infectious diseases for instance, the West Nile virus in 1999 were alleged to have started; where wild animals are killed on sight but a habitat for several bird species is nevertheless supported; and where the serial killer Hannibal Lecter would have enjoyed a brief respite from his incarceration but one which he sneeringly rejected?”
“He could simply vacate the suspension and state the clerics have the faculties they need from him to confect the sacraments independent of any other authorization - such faculties to last until such time as a juridical structure can be agreed to.”
“The Novus Ordo is a valid mass because the words and rites that would confect the sacrament is present in the rite.”
“The Church can't confect deficient sacraments as she is protected by the Holy Ghost.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘confect’.
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chocolate gets 112 hits
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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The Last Good Words Left
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put words in their place
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