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Definition of Comfit
1. Verb. Make into a confection. "This medicine is home-confected"
Generic synonyms: Assemble, Piece, Put Together, Set Up, Tack, Tack Together
Derivative terms: Confection, Confection
2. Noun. Candy containing a fruit or nut.
Definition of Comfit
1. n. A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
2. v. t. To preserve dry with sugar.
Definition of Comfit
1. Noun. A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar. ¹
2. Noun. (Australia) A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comfit
1. a candy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comfit
Literary usage of Comfit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... in tbe imprudence of my satisfaction, conceal the conversation 1 had had with
my old friend Mrs. comfit. on this point would look like affectation, ..."
2. Dictionarium Anglo-britannicum ; Or, A General English Dictionary ..by John Kersey by John Kersey (1708)
"... fet very clof together, upon which thole comfit« ar chiefly laid, which are to be
... comfit ..."
3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1849)
"... is further rolled in powdered sugar-candy, and becomes a kind of comfit. "
Gram-flour is made up with sesamum-oil into a mass, which rolled in ..."
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