confect

verb

1. (transitive)To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.

   “The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.”

   “The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.”

   “[My joys] are still confected with some feares.”

   “Of this alſo were confected the famous everlaſting Lamps and Tapers.”

   “Ms. Williams, who confected book, music, and lyrics, credits Aesop for inspiring her "musical fable," but the light-weight, pastel little show owes more to Disney than to the ironic perceptions of Aesop.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.

   “Not all the Ointments brought from Delos Ile; / Nor from the confines of ſeuen-headed Nile; / Nor that brought whence Phœnicians haue abodes; / Nor Cyprus wilde Vine-flowers, nor that of Rhodes, / Nor Roſes-oile from Naples, Capua, / Saffron confected in Cilicia; / Nor that of Quinces, nor of Marioram, / That euer from the Ile of Coös came.”

noun

1. (obsolete)A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

   “Princes and Counties! ſurely a princely teſtimonie, a goodly Counte, Counte Comfect, a ſweete Gallant ſurely, O that I were a man for his ſake!”

   “Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a ſpoonful of them eaten in the morning faſting, and as many after each meal is a moſt admirable Remedy for ſuch as are troubled with Wind.”

   “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.”