confection

Meanings

1. 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.
2. The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
3. The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
4. An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
5. Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.
6. A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
7. A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.
8. A deadly poison.

1. To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.

Etymology

From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.