confect

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: con=fect

CIDE DICTIONARY

confect, v. t. [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to prepare. See Comfit.].

•  To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.  [1913 Webster]

  "Saffron confected in Cilicia."  [1913 Webster]
•  To construct; to form; to mingle or mix.  [1913 Webster]

  "Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers."  [1913 Webster]

  "[My joys] are still confected with some fears."  [1913 Webster]

confect, n. 

 A comfit; a confection.  [1913 Webster]
"At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

confect, v.tr. literary make by putting together ingredients.

Etymology

L conficere confect- put together (as com-, facere make)