confect
/kənˈfɛkt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.11 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dʰeh₁-, cōnfectus, cōnfectum