Comfit vs Confect - What's the difference?
comfit | confect |
To preserve dry with sugar.
* Cowley
To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
* 1629 , , Travels in Persia
*:Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
(obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
*1613 , , Brittania's Pastorals ,
*:Saffron confected in Cilicia,
(obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
* Harvey
* 1889 ,
As nouns the difference between comfit and confect
is that comfit is a confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar while confect is a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.As verbs the difference between comfit and confect
is that comfit is to preserve dry with sugar while confect is to make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.comfit
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(wikipedia comfit)Etymology 1
From (etyl)?."comfit", entry in Online Etymology Dictionary.
See also
* bonbon * discomfitVerb
(en verb)- The fruit which does so quickly waste, Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last.
Etymology 2
Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques .References
confect
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- [My joys] are still confected with some fears.'' -- ''Stirling
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Noun
(en noun)- At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects .
- 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.