confect

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit. obsolete
    — 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!
动词 v.
  1. To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct. transitive
    — The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.
  2. To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like. obsolete,transitive
    — 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 Marioram, / That euer from the Ile of Coös came.

词形变化

confects present,singular,third-person confecting participle,present confected participle,past confected past confects plural

词汇关系

衍生词
unconfected
相关词
confection confectionary confectionery confectioner

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of comfit, confetto, confit, and konfyt.
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