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

Jelly white and red, dates in confect, conger, salmon, birt, dorey, turbut holibut for standard, bace, trout, mullet, chevin, soles, lamprey roast, and tench in jelly. 

From The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by May, Robert