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单词 confect
释义 con·fect
I. \kənˈfekt\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Latin confectus, past participle of conficere to prepare — more at comfit
1. : to put together (as ingredients in compounding a medicine)
 < home-confected medicaments — S.H.Adams >
2.
 a. : prepare
  < hard sauce confected for the pudding — Silas Spitzer >
  : pickle, preserve
 b. : to put together (as a novel) from varied and often incongruous material : construct
  < writers busy confecting best sellers >
  < the majority of attempts to confect a poetic drama — T.S.Eliot >
II. \ˈkänˌfekt\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Medieval Latin confectum, from Latin, neuter of confectus, past participle of conficere
: comfit, confection
 < a confect of leafy faces in a tree — Wallace Stevens >
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