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confected

confected is the simple past and past participle of confect.

Meaning of confect

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.
    • The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.
  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...1613, William Browne, “The Second Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 39

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Words formed from confected

Questions about confected

What is confected the simple past and past participle of?
Confected is the simple past and past participle of confect.

Words near confected in the dictionary

  1. confarreate
  2. confarreation
  3. confarreations
  4. confated
  5. confect
  6. confected
  7. confecting
  8. confection
  9. confectionaries
  10. confectionary
  11. confectioned

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