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Webster 1913 Edition
Confection
Con-fec′tion
,Noun.
[F., fr. L.
confectio
.] 1.
A composition of different materials.
[Obs.]
A new
confection
of mold. Bacon.
2.
A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
Certain
confections
. . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons. Bacon.
3.
A composition of drugs.
Shak.
4.
(Med.)
A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.
☞ The pharmacopœias formerly made a distinction between conserves (made of fresh vegetable substances and sugar) and electuaries (medicinal substances combined with sirup or honey), but the distinction is now abandoned and all are called confections.
Webster 1828 Edition
Confection
CONFECTION
,Noun.
1.
Any thing prepared with sugar, as fruit; a sweetmeat; something preserved. 2.
A composition or mixture.3.
A soft electuary.Definition 2024
confection
confection
English
Noun
confection (plural confections)
- A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
- The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
- The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
- The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
- (dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
- (dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, seen as very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also seen as impractical or non-utilitarian.
- 2007, Susan Sizemore, Primal Desires
- She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.
- 2007, Susan Sizemore, Primal Desires
- (pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
Related terms
Translations
food item
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Verb
confection (third-person singular simple present confections, present participle confectioning, simple past and past participle confectioned)
- To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
French
Etymology
From Old French confeccion, a borrowing from Latin cōnfectiō, cōnfectiōnem.
Noun
confection f (plural confections)
- making, creation, development, confection
- L'emplacement standard pour la confection d'une fistule A-V est l'avant-bras non-dominant des patients.
- The standard entry point for the creation of a arteriovenous fistula is on a patient's non-dominant forearm.
- L'emplacement standard pour la confection d'une fistule A-V est l'avant-bras non-dominant des patients.
- ready-to-wear clothing
- the ready-to-wear clothing industry