confect

/kənˈfɛkt/

confect verb: to make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.

Verb

confect (third-person singular simple present confects, present participle confecting, simple past and past participle confected)

(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.
(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...1613, William Browne, “The Second Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 39

IPA/ˈkɒnfɛkt/

confect (plural confects)

(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!1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV...
- 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.1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Caraway”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, pages 28–29

[My joys] are still confected with some feares.1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Aurora:
Of this alſo were confected the famous everlaſting Lamps and Tapers.1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham...
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.1973 December 22, Jonathan M. Cross, “The Fag In The Fifth Row”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 5:
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, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Of Cornet Joseph Clarke of the Ironsides”, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC...

Verb
third-person singular present	confects
present participle	confecting
past participle	confected
past	confected
Noun
plural	confects

Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”).

Borrowed from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of comfit, confetto, confit, and konfyt.

What does confect mean?: Confect means to make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
What is confect in Urdu?: Confect in Urdu is اجزا کا ملانا (ijzā kā milānā). See Confect meaning in Urdu.
How do you use confect in a sentence?: [My joys] are still confected with some feares.
What part of speech is confect?: Confect can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce confect?: Confect is pronounced /kənˈfɛkt/.
What is the past tense of confect?: The past tense of confect is confected.

Adapted from Wiktionary: confect (page history and authors); اجزا کا ملانا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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