confect 
of conficere, put together, make up (> F. confire, 
preserve), < com-, together, + fuccre, do ( make.] 
1. To make up or compound ; especially, to 
make into sweetmeats. 
Elias, a converted Jew, is said to have confessed. That 
in his House the Poison was canfected. 
Baiter, Chronicles, p. 86. 
Saffron confected in Cilicia. 
W. Broume, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 2. 
Mistery there, like to another nature, 
Confects the substance of the choicest fruits 
In a rich candy. 
Dekkerand Ford, Sun's Darling, iv. 1. 
2. To put together ; construct; compose; form. 
Of this also were confected the famous everlasting lamps 
and tapers. Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. :!n!i. 
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2f. A room in which confections are kept or 
made. 
Here, ladies, are the keys of the stores, of the rnnf.-rHnn- 
arif, of tin.- u iiK'-vnults. Jiichardturn, Grandison, II. 226. 
3f. A confectioner's shop. See confectionery. 
4f. A drug-shop, or place where medicines 
are compounded. 
Both history, poesy, and daily experience are as goodly 
fields where these observations grow whereof we make a 
few posies to hold in our hands, but no man bringeth them 
to the confectionary, that receipts might be made of them 
for the use of life. ' 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 200. 
confectioner (kon-fek'shon-er), . [< confec- 
tion + -er. Cf. confectionary, .] If. One who 
compounds preparations, as drugs. 
ui tutmmav wmvuvtytsoi cxuwuum HUHAFD nun T^ -tl t \^L. uuftjrcttv/itu t/, .j 7. *-' il " wuu 
and tapers. f 7'. //erfcert, Travels, p. 30! . compoun a s preparations, as drugs. 
COnfeCtt, a. [< L- confectus, pp. : see the verb Canidia Neopolitana was confectioner of unguents. 
and noun.] Confected; compounded. ilt'iitmoil, Gunaikeion, viii. 
Iii ropes kepe this confect. meddissyng 2. One who makes confectionery or confections ; 
In ropes kepe this confect meddissyng 
Until the time of veer or of spryngyng. 
I'alladim, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 29. 
confect (kon'fekt), n. [= G. confect = Dan. 
Sw. konfekt = It. eonfetto, < ML. confection, also 
confecta (usually in pi. confectte), a confect, 
sweetmeat, prop. neut. or fern, of L. confectus, 
pp. of conficere, put together, make up: see 
confect, v., and cf. comjit and eonfetto, doublets 
of confect, n,] A preparation with sugar or 
honey, as of fruit, herbs, roots, and the like ; a 
confection ; a comfit ; a sweetmeat. 
At Bupper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar 
of roses and caraway confects. ' Harvey, Consumptions. 
Collects and spiced drinks were then served to them 
and to the assembled company. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 316. 
confection (kou-fek'shon), n. [Early mod. E. 
also confexion; < ME. confection, confeccioun, 
a preparation, a mixture, < OF. confection, con- 
fession, confiction, a confection, F. confection, 
a making, making up, ready-made clothes, a 
preparation of drugs, etc., = Pr. confection = 
Sp. confeccion = Pg. confecycto, confeig&o = It. 
confezione, < ML. confectio(n-), a preparation, 
medicament, L. a preparing, < conficere, pp. 
confectus, prepare, put together: see confect, .] 
1. The art or act of correcting or compound- 
ing different substances iuto one preparation : 
as, the confection of sweetmeats. 
This fissile, and lardde, and flitches salt to kepe 
In just confection now taketh kepe. 
Palladia*, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 58. 
2f. A composition or mixture, as of drugs, etc. ; 
a preparation to be eaten or imbibed. 
As to the confections of sale which are in the shops, 
they are for readiness, and not for propriety. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, II. x. 8. 
Bread is a confection made of manye graynes. 
Crowley, Confutation of Shaxton, sig. D, iij. b (1546). 
That confection 
Which I gave him for a cordial. 
Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. 
2. One who makes confectionery or confections ; 
specifically, one who makes or sells candies, 
candied fruits, bonbons, caramels, comfits, or 
other articles prepared with sugar, as cake, 
ice-cream, etc. 
Most of the shops 
Of the best confectioners in London ransack'd, 
To furnish out a banquet. 
Massinger, City Madam, ii. 1. 
confectionery (kon-fek'shon-er-i), n. ; pi. con- 
fectioneries (-iz). [Formerly also confectionary 
(being ult. from ML. as if "confectionaria); < 
confection + -ery.~] 1. A place where sweet- 
meats and similar things are made or gold ; a 
confectioner's shop. 2. Collectively, sweet- 
meats; things prepared or sold by a confec- 
tioner; confections. 
She . . , insisted upon his taking some particular con- 
fectionery, because it was a favourite of her own. 
Disraeli, Coningsby, i. 4. 
confection-pan (kon-fek'shon-pan), n. A ro- 
tating pan heated by steam or hot air, and de- 
signed for drying confections. 
confectoryt (kon'fek-to-ri), a. and n. [< ML. 
"confectorius (cf. ML. confectorium, a sweet- 
meat-box, also a place where cattle are slaugh- 
tered), < L. conficere, pp. confectus, put together, 
make up, also diminish, kill : see confect, t'.] I. 
a. Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. 
In which the wanton might 
Of confectory art endeavour'd how 
To charm all tastes to their sweet overthrow. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, iv. 127. 
II. n. A place where confections are made; 
a confectionery. 
COnfecturet (kon-fek'tur), n. [< ME. confecture, 
< ML. confeciiira;, pi., sweetmeats, L. confec- 
titra, a preparing, < conficere, pp. confectus, pre- 
pare: see confect, and cf. confiture, a doublet 
of confecture.] A composition or compound, 
especially of drugs. Chaucer. 
Droggis, confectouris and spiceig. 
Acts James VI., 1581 (ed. 1814), p. 221. 
3. Something prepared or preserved with sugar confedert (kon-fed'er), v. i. [< ME. confederen, 
< OF. confederer, F. confederer = Sp. Pg. con- 
federar = It. confederarsi, refl., < LL. confcedc- 
rare, confederate : see confederate, r.] To con- 
federate. 
or syrup, (a) A sweetmeat. 
Hast thou not learn 'd me how 
To make perfumes ? distil? preserve? yea, BO 
That our great king himself doth woo me oft 
For my confections? Shak., Cymbeline, i. 6. 
(6) In phar., a preparation, in the form of a soft solid, in 
which one or more medicinal substances are incorporated 
with saccharine matter, with a view to their preservation 
or for more convenient administration. V. S. Dispensa- 
tory. 
4. [F.] A ready-made garment, as a mantle, 
wrap, fichu, etc., for women's wear, often of 
several materials, and always more or less elab- 
orate and elegant: as, Madame A - has re- 
turned with a choice assortment of confections. 
[Used in trade.] pry confections, such confec- 
tions as are made by boiling in syrup those portions of 
fruits adapted to this method, as citron, orange-peel, flgs, 
etc., which are afterward taken out and dried in an oven. 
Liquid confections, fruits, whole or in pieces, pre- 
served by immersion in a transparent syrup. Apricots, 
green citrons, and many other fruits are so preserved. 
COnfectiont (kon-fek'shon), v. t. [< confection, 
.] To prepare for use with sugar or syrup ; 
compound. 
Being grene, or well confectioned in syrope, it [ginger] 
comforteth moche the stomake and head. 
Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, ii. 
confectionary (kon-fek'shon-a-ri), a. and n. 
[< ML. confeetionariu.t, a maker of confections, 
an apothecary (prop, adj.), < confectio(n-), a con- 
fection: see confection, n., and -firry 1 .] I. a. Of 
the nature of, or prepared as, a confection ; pre- 
pared or preserved with sugar. 
The biscuit ; or confectionary plum. 
Cmcper, My Mother's Picture. 
II. n. 1. A confectioner. 
He will take your daughters to be confect immries and 
to be cooks. 1 Sam. viii. 13. 
Confedred both by bonde and alliaunce. 
Chaucer, Pity, 1. 42. 
Having confedered with Oneale, Oconor, and other Irish 
potentates. tlolinshed, Chronicles. 
confederacy (kon-fed'er-a-si), n. ; pi. confedera- 
cies (-siz). [<"ME. confederacie, < OF. (AF.) 
confederacie, < ML. as if * confosderatia, < LL. 
confcederatus, pp. : see confederate, a., and -ucy. 
Cf. confederation.] 1. A contract between two 
or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for 
mutual support or joint action of any kind; a 
compact, league, or alliance. 
This fable seems invented to shew the nature of the 
compacts and confederacies of princes. 
Bacon, Political Fables, ii., Expl. 
For he hath heard of our confederacy, 
And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him. 
Shak., iHen. IV., iv. 4. 
The friendships of the world are oft 
Confederacies in vice. Addison. 
It is readily conceded that one of the strongest charac- 
teristics of a confederacy is, that it usually operates on the 
states or communities which compose it in their corpo- 
rate capacity. Calhoun, Works, I. 156. 
This first charge [against Suffolk] was based on the re- 
port that he had sold the realm to Charles VII., and had 
fortified Wallingford castle as headquarters for a confed- 
eracy against the independence of England. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 345. 
2. An aggregation of persons, parties, states, 
or nations united by a league ; a confederation. 
In the great Delian confederacy which developed into the 
maritime empire of Athens, the .<Egean cities were treated 
as allies rather than subjects. 
J. Fiske, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 75. 
confederate 
3. In law, a combination of two or more per- 
sons to commit an unlawful act ; a conspiracy. 
Folk that wisten of a foninracioun, whiehe I clepe a 
confederaeif, that was cast ajeius this tyraunt. 
Chaucer, Boethius, p. 53. 
4t. Confederated action ; cooperation; concur- 
rence. 
Under the countenance and confederacy 
Of Lady Eleanor. Slat., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 
Southern Confederacy. Same as Confederate States of 
Aiin-ri< l ir (u liirli sr;. iunk-1 1 '-"///'''terate, a.). Syn. 1 ami 2. 
l.t'/t'fvr, Contifiim, ftr. (set- uUiii n<;-), rninbiiiatii m. roiilVd- 
eration, union. See confederation. 
COnfederal (kon-fed'or-al), a. [< L. com-, to- 
gether, + fa-dus (fatdcr-J, league : see con- and 
federal.'] Of or pertaining to a confederation ; 
composed of confederated states ; specifically, 
in U. S. hist., pertaining to the confederacy of 
the States under the Articles of Confederation 
(1781-89). 
It is the disposition of the people of America to place 
their con federal government on the most respectable basis. 
J. F. Mercer, in Bancroft's Hist. Const., I. 397. 
confederate (kon-fed'er-at), v. ; pret. and pp. 
confederated, ppr. confederating. [< LL. con- 
faideratus, pp. of cpnfoiderare C> obs. E. eon- 
feder, q. v.), unite in a league, < L. com-, to- 
gether, + LL. fcederare, league, < L. fcedus 
(feeder-), a league: see federal, federate.'} I. 
in trans. To unite in a league or alliance; join 
in a mutual contract or covenant. 
They will not . . . [disturb] y alforesaid Indeans ; 
either in their persons, buildings, catle, or goods, directly 
or indirectly ; nor will they confederate with any other 
against them. 
Quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 438. 
By words men . . . covenant and confederate. South. 
It would be unequal to require South Carolina and 
Georgia to confederate on such terms. 
C. Pinckney, in Bancroft's Hist. Const., II. 155. 
II. trans. To cause to unite in a league ; ally. 
To the end that when many (people] are >-''ir l / l ' ! -iit>il 
each may make the other the more strong. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 10. 
With these the Percies them confederate. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, iv. 23. 
Confederate (kon-fed'er-at), a. and w. [= F. 
confedere = Sp. Pg. confederado = It. confede- 
rato, < ML. confederatus, eonfoedcratus, a. and 
n., \ LL. confcederatus, pp. : see the verb.] I. 
a. 1. United in a league; allied by compact 
or treaty ; engaged in a confederacy ; leagued ; 
pertaining to a confederacy. 
All the swords 
In Italy, and her confederate arms, 
Could not have made this peace. 
Shak., COT., v. 3. 
Zounds ! go for the doctor, you scoundrel. You are all 
confederate murderers. Sherulan, St. Patrick's Day, ii. 4. 
The definition of a confederate, republic seems simply to 
be " an assemblage of societies," or an assopiation of two 
or more states into one state. 
A. Hamilton, Federalist, No. 102. 
A gale, 
Confederate with the current of the soul, 
To speed my voyage. Wordsworth, Prelude, vi. 
Specifically 2. [c<yx] Pertaining to the Con- 
federate States of America: as, the Confederate 
government or army. 
During the following night the Confederate works on 
the opposite side of the river were abandoned and blown 
up. Am. Cyc., XVI. 182. 
Confederate States of America, the name assumed 
by the southern States which seceded from the American 
Union in 1860-61, on the occasion of the election of a 
President (Abraham Lincoln) and Congress unfriendly to 
the institution of slavery, and formed a government under 
a constitution adopted by a general convention at Mont- 
gomery, Alabama, on March llth, 1861. The confedera- 
tion ultimately consisted of the following eleven States, 
which adopted ordinances of secession in the order given, 
the first on December 20th, 1860, and the last on May 20th, 
1861 : South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, 
Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, 
North Carolina. They were readmitted to their former 
status as equal members of the United States after a little 
more than four years of civil war (the first actual hostili- 
ties occurring at Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 
12th, 1861, and the last in Texas on May 13th, 1865), and 
after a period of reconstruction and the acceptance of 
certain amendments to the federal Constitution, one of 
which abolished slavery. Abbreviated C. S, A. 
II: H. 1. One who is united or banded with 
another or others in a compact or league; a 
person or nation engaged in a confederacy ; an 
ally; an associate; an accomplice. 
The beast Caliban, and his confederates. 
Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 
Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate, 
Bishop of Exeter, his elder brother, 
With many more confederates, are in arms. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 
Specifically 2. A citizen or subject of one of 
a number of confederated states; specifically 
(with a capital), a citizen or soldier of any one 
