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comfiture ? Obs.|ˈkʌmfɪtjʊə(r), -tjə-|
Also con-.
[a. F. confiture, ad. L. confectūra preparation (f. conficĕre) after F. confit: see comfit n. and cf. confecture.]
†1. A preparation of drugs. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 534 Ther is no creature That eten or dronken hath of this confiture [v.r. confecture]..That he ne shal his life anon forlete.
2. A preparation of preserved fruit or the like; ‘preserve’, confection. arch. or Obs.
1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. (1568) 64 b, Al these confytures may dure many yeares. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. xiv. 336 A confiture made of the sayde roote [Elecampane]. 1626Bacon Sylva §777 There be some Houses, wherein Confitures and Pies, will gather Mould more than in others. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Cholick, Give them Rhubarb in Powder, put into an Egg, or some Comfiture. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 526 The sugar of your comfitures is too chalky for our discriminating tooth.
†3. The preserving (of fruit, etc.). Obs. rare.
1601Holland Pliny I. 406 The Raisins called passæ..of their patience to indure their drying and confiture.
4. attrib. and Comb.
a1626Bacon New Atl. (1650) 31 A Confiture-House; where we make all Sweet-Meats, Drie and Moist. 1872Daily News 3 May 6/1 Skill in comfiture making. |