29 May 2015

confect

[v. kuh n-fekt; n. kon-fekt]

verb (used with object)
1. to make up, compound, or prepare from ingredients or materials:
to confect a herbal remedy for colds.
2. to make into a preserve or confection.
3. to construct, form, or make:
to confect a dress from odds and ends of fabric.
noun
4. a preserved, candied, or other sweet confection.

Origin of confect
Middle English, Latin
1350-1400; Middle English confecten < Latin confectus (past participle of conficere to produce, effect), equivalent to con- con- + -fec- (variant stem of -ficere, combining form of facere to make; see fact ) + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms
unconfected, adjective

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Examples from the web for confect
– On that date, the parties met with the district judge to confect a pretrial order.

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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On this day

29 May 1874 – birth of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (otherwise known as G.K. Chesterton), English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer and Christian apologist. Died 14 June 1936.

29 May 1917 – birthday of John F. Kennedy. 35th president of the United States. Assassinated 22 November 1963.

29 May 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, become the first men to reach the summit of Mt Everest.