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▪ I. confection, n.|kənˈfɛkʃən|
Forms: 4 confeccioun, 5–6 -ion, 5–7 -fexion, 5 -fectyone, 6 -tione, -feccyon, (-feccon), 5– confection.
[a. F. confection, OF. confeccion, ad. L. confectiōn-em, n. of action from conficĕre: see confect v.]
1. Making or preparation by mixture of ingredients; mixing, compounding; composition, preparation, making up, manufacture. Sometimes esp. the making of preserves or confectionery.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. in Ashm. (1652) 89 Confection of the Red medicine. 1584R. Scot Disc. Witchcr. xii. xvii. 212 There be artificial glasses, which will shew unto you..many images..Looke in John Bap. Neap. for the confection of such glasses. 1615Crooke Body of Man 128 For a confection of some kinde of bloud. 1654Charleton Physiologia 379 Commixt with so many Alexiterial Simples as concur to the Confection of Triacle. 1855Thackeray Newcomes xv, Pots of jam of her confection. 1884T. Hancock in Academy 23 Feb. 133/3 He said that poetry had other business than the ingenious confection of new tropes and metaphors.
†2. The performance of the sacrifice of the mass. Obs.
1564Becon Compar. Lord's Supp. & Mass Epil., Blasphemies against Christ..invocation of dead saints, confection, consecration, application, and oblation of the body and blood of Christ.
†3. Putting together; arrangement; compilation.
1652Gaule Magastrom. xxiv. 223 For without a constellated fabrication or confection all these presaging mirables (and the like) signifie nothing in effect. 1821W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. LII. 140 To Ezra principally was confided the confection of the Scriptures.
†4. Prepared or composed state or condition; composition, constitution. Obs.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 406 This fisshe, and lardde, and flitches salt to kepe In just confection now taketh kepe. 1609Bible (Douay) Ecclus. xlix. 1 The memorie of Josias is according to the confection of perfume made by..an apothecarie. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. v. xix, Why blam'st thou then my stonie hard confection, Which nothing loves? 1675L. Addison Pres. State Jews xiii, The Ink..must not be black, nor of the ordinary confection.
†5. A preparation made by mixing; a composition, mixture, compound. Obs. in general sense.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 221 Þat man closede a confeccioun of brymston and of blak salt in a vessel of bras, and sette hit on þe fire. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. iv, Potable Gold, Mercury, and many other chymicall confections.
b. A medicinal preparation compounded of various drugs; in later use, spec. one compounded with a sweetening and preserving agent.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xi. (1495) 609 Laye the same confexion to the sore wythout. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 94 (MS. A) Leie on þis confeccioun maad of flour of wheete & honey & jus of smalache. 1549Compl. Scot. ix. 80 That confectione vas callit to name eftiruart, antidotum mitridates. 1585Lloyd Treas. Health B v, Make a confeccon of the floure of Fenell Seede in a Glasse with wyne and annoynt the head therwyth. 1611Bible Ecclus. xxxviii. 8 Of such doeth the Apothecarie make a confection [Wyclif pymentis of swotenesse]. 1812Paris Pharmacol. (1829) II. 177 Confectiones..under this title the London College comprehends the conserves and electuaries of its former Pharmacopœias. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 18 Confections are medicinal substances beaten up with sugar into a pasty mass.
†c. spec. A prepared poison, a deadly potion.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 49 Here is the confection yt thou must drinke. 1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. i. li, After he [Socrates] had commended his soule to God, hee dranke the confection. 1586A. Day Engl. Secretarie ii. (1625) 98 A venemous confection. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 246. 1658 Ussher Ann. vi. 572 Well skilled in Confections of the poyson of Serpents.
d. A prepared dish or delicacy; now, a preparation of fruit, spices, sugar, or the like, used as a relish or dainty; a preserve, sweetmeat, comfit.
1393Gower Conf. III. 23 Confection of cokes. c1440Promp. Parv. 90 Confectyon of spyces. a1536Tindale Expos. Matt. (Parker Soc.) 97 To banquet..of all manner of fruits and confections. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 102 Sweet condyments and delicat confections of spiceries. 1626Bacon Sylva §705 They have in Turkey..certaine Confections, which they call Serbets, which are like Candied Conserves. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Preserve, To make a thick Confection of Grapes. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 242 Many salvers were covered with confections and sweet cakes. 1888Pall Mall G. 25 Sept. 5/1 ‘Drop a penny into the slot’ and you can..obtain..a pennyworth of confections.
e. fig.
1649Selden Laws Eng. ii. vi. (1739) 28 A Confection made for the Arch-bishop's appetite, to cure a distemper between him and the King.
†6. A literary or musical composition. ? Obs.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas Ded., No Selfe-presuming of my Witts perfection (In what is mine of this Divine Confection). 1844H. F. Chorley Music & M. III. 269 A young lady in a sacque sate singing some ancient confection by Mondonville.
‖7. Dressmaking. The French word for any ready-made article of attire, used particularly, in reference to fashionable female apparel, of mantles, cloaks, wraps, etc., put on over the ordinary indoor dress.
1885Globe 31 Jan. 7/4 The confections that are intended to be retained over toilettes of this class are very elaborately trimmed. 1886Besant Childr. Gibeon 16 A dainty confection of pale blue silk, called, I think, surat.
8. Comb., as confection-closet; confection-pan, a pan for drying sweets, bonbons, etc., in which they are kept in constant rolling motion.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) Post. Groans No. 19 Continually losing the choicest articles of the larder, cellar, and confection-closet.
▪ II. confection, v.|kənˈfɛkʃən|
[f. prec. n.: cf. mod.F. confectionner in sense 3.]
1. trans. To prepare for use with sugar, syrup, or the like; to make into a confection; to mix, make up as a condiment or seasoned delicacy. Also fig.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 30 b, Gynger..grene, or well confectioned in syrope. Ibid. 44 b, Hote wynes and swete, or confectioned with spices. 1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 124 Sweet fruits and daintie delicates, confectioned with curious Cookerie. 1623Favine Theat. Hon. ii. xii. 165 Neuerthelesse it was confexioned with bitternesse and crosses. 1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar v. 91 A cup of Chocolatte well confectioned comforts and strengthens the Stomach. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 527 Pelham's recipe for confectioning the condiment hight A Man of Fashion. 1879F. S. Bridges Round the World 81 [He] confectioned a sort of punch out of saki, claret, sliced oranges, and..sugar.
2. To treat with confections or sweetmeats. rare.
1882J. Parker Apost. Life (1884) III. 137 We do not come to the throne of God to be hugged and comforted and confectioned.
‖3. To make up (an article of attire). [Gallicism, after F. Confectionner.]
1839F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia (1863) 134, I have..spent considerable time in what the French call ‘confectioning’ baby bundles. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. I. viii. 258 Naomi made her own dresses..and occasionally confectioned some decorative article for Judith. 1880Mrs. Forrester Roy & V. II. 153 Confectioning a piece of fine point lace.
Hence conˈfectioned ppl. a.; conˈfectioning vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 148 Some confectioned oyntments. 1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 148 Confectioning, simpling, or an acquisition of the knowledge of Herbs or Drugs. |