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† conˈfecture Obs.
Also 6 -our(e.
[ad. med.L. confectūra a confection, L. confectūra preparation, f. ppl. stem of L. conficĕre to confect: see -ure.]
A preparation of drugs, of preserved fruit, sweets, etc.; = confection, comfiture.
c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 534 Þer nys no creature Þat eten or drunken haþ of þis confecture [v.r. confiture]..Þat he ne schal his lyf anon forlete. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. xxv. 310 To ete spyces or confectures..is noo brekynge of faste. 1581Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §114 The inordinat consumption..of Drogges, Confectoures and Spiceries, brocht from the pairtes beyond Sea. 1693N. Staphorst tr. Rauwolf in Ray's Trav. (1738) II. 123 A great dish fill'd up with Cibebs, and several sorts of confectures. |