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Confection
Confection Con*fec"tion, n. [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. Note: The pharmacop[oe]ias 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.
Confectionary
Confectionary Con*fec"tion*a*ry, n. [Cf. LL. confectionaris a pharmacist.] A confectioner. [Obs.] He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. --1 Sam. viii. 13.
Confectionary
Confectionary Con*fec"tion*a*ry, a. Prepared as a confection. The biscuit or confectionary plum. --Cowper.
Confectioner
Confectioner Con*fec"tion*er, n. 1. A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. --Haywood. 2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.
Confectionery
Confectionery Con*fec"tion*er*y, n. 1. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies. 2. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.

Meaning of Confectio from wikipedia

- Yuhanna ̄ Ibn Masawaih used the dye kermes to create a potion called Confectio Alchermes. The potion was “intended for the caliph and his court and not...
- major ingredient. Alkermes was a modification of an 8th-century potion confectio alchermes, a tonic composed of raw silk, apple juice, ground pearls, musk...
- In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities (see panacea);...
- Brigade Role Combat Support Size Brigade Garrison/HQ Camp Beauregard, Louisiana (Headquarters) Motto(s) Confectio Insignia Distinctive unit insignia...
- in Patrologia Latina, vol. 138, col. 17-170, III, 54 (col. 105) : 54. Confectio abaci. In geometria vero non minor in docendo labor expensus est. Cujus...
- confectione quæ dicitur tenax, Theophylus speaks about a preparation called confectio tenax. The material cited by Theophylus has a double role: it should act...
- trium Gebri medicinarum, in quibus contenitur Lapidis Philosophici vera confectio (Amsterdam, 1678, Latin) The Secret of the Immortal Liquor called Alkahest...