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Mingle vs Confect - What's the difference?

mingle | confect |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between mingle and confect

is that mingle is (obsolete) a mixture while confect is (obsolete) a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

As verbs the difference between mingle and confect

is that mingle is to mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound while confect is to make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.

As nouns the difference between mingle and confect

is that mingle is (obsolete) a mixture while confect is (obsolete) a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

mingle

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(mingl)
  • To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
  • * Bible, Exodus ix. 24
  • There was fire mingled with the hail.
    Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. New York Times
  • To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
  • * Bible, Ezra ix. 2
  • The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
  • To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
  • * Henry Rogers
  • a mingled , imperfect virtue
  • (obsolete) To put together; to join.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  • [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
  • To become mixed or blended.
  • Derived terms

    * commingle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A mixture.
  • confect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
  • 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
  • * 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 , book 1, song 2
  • *:Saffron confected in Cilicia,
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
  • * Harvey
  • At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects .
  • * 1889 ,
  • 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.