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/kənˈfɛkt/ · verb
(transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce 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 feares.
Of this alſo were confected the famous everlaſting Lamps and Tapers.
Ms. Williams, who confected book, music, and lyrics, credits Aesop for inspiring her "musical fable," but the light-weight, pastel little show owes more to Disney than to the ironic perceptions of Aesop.
The 1227 provincial Council of Trier took a more admonitory approach, warning that a priest sinned mortally if he failed to confect the Eucharist properly, leading the people into idolatry by having them adore mere bread: Likewise the priest who celebrates mass should confect the body of Christ and read the Canon.
Not all the Ointments brought from Delos Ile; / Nor from the confines of ſeuen-headed Nile; / Nor that brought whence Phœnicians haue abodes; / Nor Cyprus wilde Vine-flowers, nor that of Rhodes, / Nor Roſes-oile from Naples, Capua, / Saffron confected in Cilicia; / Nor that of Quinces, nor of Marioram, / That euer from the Ile of Coös came.
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!
Use confect when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Confect means (transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct..
Common synonyms include confection, comfit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.
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