Obs. Also 6 -fict. [ad. L. confect-us, pa. pple. of conficĕre: see CONFECT v.]
1. Performed. (Said of the sacrifice of the mass: cf. CONFECTION sb. 2, CONFICIENT.)
1401. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 108. Thei seie breed is turned into fleish, and wyne into blood … It wole not be confect but oonli of a preest, that lawfulli is ordeyned.
2. Made up by combination of ingredients; compounded; mixed.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. lx. (1495), 897. Oximell is callyd soure hony, for the matere therof is confecte of hony and of vyneygre.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 797. Kepe this confect meddissyng Until the time of … spryngyng.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, III. ix. (1554), 82. Confect with spices.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par., Pref. to Luke, 10. It is confect of no mo than one simple.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, Ep. Ded. Ambrosia, a sugred and confect kinde of wine.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., § 89. 156. Take a long neckt Jugg … put in thy Amber confect therein.
3. Made into a confection; preserved.
1558. Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr. (1568), 42 a. The seede of citrons confict in sugre.
4. ‘Made up,’ counterfeit.
c. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Confect, Counterfeit.
