Hypertext Webster Gateway: "confected"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Confect \Con*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confected}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Confecting}.] [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to
prepare. See {Comfit}.]
1. To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.]

Saffron confected in Cilicia. --W. Browne.

2. To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. [Obs.]

Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps
and tapers. --Sir T.
Herbert.

[My joys] are still confected with some fears.
--Stirling.


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