confect

American  

[kuhn-fekt, kon-fekt] / kənˈfɛkt, ˈkɒn fɛkt /

verb (used with object)

1. to make up, compound, or prepare from ingredients or materials.

   to confect a herbal remedy for colds.

2. to make into a preserve or confection.

3. to construct, form, or make.

   to confect a dress from odds and ends of fabric.

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noun

1. a preserved, candied, or other sweet confection.

confect British  

/ kənˈfɛkt /

verb

1. to prepare by combining ingredients

2. to make; construct

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Other Word Forms

• unconfected adjective

Etymology

Origin of confect

1350–1400; Middle English confecten < Latin confectus (past participle of conficere to produce, effect), equivalent to con- con- + -fec- (variant stem of -ficere, combining form of facere to make; fact ) + -tus past participle suffix

Example Sentences

Shooting on film, the imaginative directors confect a realm of tactile magic, with Kafkaesque flourishes, through the ingenious handcraftsmanship of practical elements and low-fi effects.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2022

Administration officials have been left to try to confect a coherent-sounding policy out of such contradictory impulses – so far without success.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2020

The Italian designer swapped the bold orange, black, ecru and leopard-print fabrics and the marabou and peacock feathers he's used to confect his hallmark colorblocked cocktail dresses in seasons past in favor of fur.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2011

Rather than keep the story dark, though, the filmmakers confect a different fate for Maleficent, played by Angelina Jolie at her most sculpturally imposing.

From Washington Post

We reached Forström's in season for a dinner of fat reindeer steak, cranberries, and a confect of the Arctic raspberry.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard