Definition of "confect"

confect

/kənˈfɛkt/

verb
third-person singular simple present confects, present participle confecting, simple past and past participle confected
1. (transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
  Quotations
  [My joys] are still confected with some feares.
  1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Aurora
  Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
  1629, Sir Thomas Herbert, Travels in Persia
2. (transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
  Quotations
  Saffron confected in Cilicia
  1613, William Browne, Brittania's Pastorals, book 1, song 2
noun
plural confects
1. (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
  Quotations
  Caraway confects, once only dipped in sugar, and a spoonful of them eaten in the morning fasting, and as many after each meal, is a most admirable remedy for those that are troubled with wind.
  1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian
  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.
  1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter 1