different between confect vs confectionary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nfectus, past participle of c?nficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”). As a noun, Doublet of comfit. See also confection.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?f?kt/

Verb

confect (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.
   • 1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Aurora

     [My joys] are still confected with some feares.

   • 1629, Sir Thomas Herbert, Travels in Persia

     Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
   • 1613, William Browne, Brittania's Pastorals, book 1, song 2

     Saffron confected in Cilicia

Noun

confect (plural confects)

1. (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
   • 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian

     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.

   • 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter 1

     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.

Related terms

• confection
• confectionary
• confectionery
• confectioner

English

Etymology

From Late Latin c?nfecti?n?rius (“one who prepares things by means of ingredients”), from Latin c?nfecti? (“preparing, producing”). See confection.

Adjective

confectionary (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.

   confectionary wares

2. Prepared as a confection.
   • 1798, William Cowper, On Receipt of My Mother's Picture, line 60

     Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;

Translations

Noun

confectionary (countable and uncountable, plural confectionaries)

1. A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
2. (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
3. (dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
4. (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.

   He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. -- 1 Samuel viii. 13.

5. (uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.

Translations

Related terms

• confect
• confection
• confectionery
• confectioner

References

• confectionary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.