Confront vs Confect - What's the difference?
confront | confect |
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.
To deal with.
To something bring face to face with.
To come up against; to encounter.
To engage in confrontation.
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
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 verbs the difference between confront and confect
is that confront is to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge while confect is to make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.As a noun confect is
a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.confront
English
Verb
(en verb)- We should confront him about the missing money.
Derived terms
* confrontation * confrontational * confronter * confrontmentconfect
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.