Meaning of Confect | Babel Free

Definitions

A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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!”

“Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a ſpoonful of them eaten in the morning faſting, and as many after each meal is a moſt admirable Remedy for ſuch as are troubled with Wind.”

“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.”

CEFR level