comfit
21kissing-comfit — kissˈing comˈfit noun A perfumed comfit for sweetening the breath • • • Main Entry: ↑kiss …
22caraway comfit — тминное драже …
23Comfiture — Com fi*ture (?; 135), n. [F. confiture; cf. LL. confecturae sweetmeats, confectura a preparing. See {Comfit}, and cf. {Confiture}.] See {Comfit}, n. [1913 Webster] …
24confetti — [19] The Latin compound verb conficere meant ‘put together, make, prepare’ (it was formed from the prefix com and facere ‘do, make’, source of English fact, factory, fashion, etc and related to English do). From its past participial stem was… …
25discomfit — [14] The underlying etymological sense of discomfit is ‘destroy’. It comes from desconfit, the past participle of Old French desconfire ‘defeat’; this in turn was a descendant of Vulgar Latin *disconficere ‘destroy, undo’, a compound verb formed… …
26confit — obs. form of COMFIT (Cf. comfit) …
27confetti — [19] The Latin compound verb conficere meant ‘put together, make, prepare’ (it was formed from the prefix com and facere ‘do, make’, source of English fact, factory, fashion, etc and related to English do). From its past participial stem was… …
28discomfit — [14] The underlying etymological sense of discomfit is ‘destroy’. It comes from desconfit, the past participle of Old French desconfire ‘defeat’; this in turn was a descendant of Vulgar Latin *disconficere ‘destroy, undo’, a compound verb formed… …
29Confect — Con*fect , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confecting}.] [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to prepare. See {Comfit}.] 1. To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Saffron confected in Cilicia. W.… …
30Confect — Con fect, n. A comfit; a confection. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. Harvey. [1913 Webster] …
